> yet): You can simply crash the system by issuing "grep any_string /dev/zero".
> As the lines in /dev/zero have infinite length, grep tries to allocate still more
> memory for its line buffer until the memory is exhausted. But no out of memory
> message appear and the system gets frozen (interrupts work, but normal processes
Hmmm....seems to work well for me...
[alfre@pulp alfre]$ grep nada /dev/zero
grep: memory exhausted
[alfre@pulp alfre]$ uname -a
Linux pulp.ibd.es 1.99.7 #1-pre-2.0 Tue May 21 20:30:46 MET DST 1996 i486
-- Alfredo