Re: Memory leak in Solaris 2.7 kernel?

[Emre Yildirim <emre () SRENGINEERING COM>]

Here is what I got:

NetBSD:
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~# uname -smr
NetBSD 1.5S i386
~# ../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*
bash: xmalloc: cannot allocate 6023 bytes (0 bytes allocated)
Connection to silicon closed.
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IRIX:
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# hinv | head -n 5
FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.6
8 195 MHZ IP27 Processors
Main memory size: 2048 Mbytes
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
# uname -smr
IRIX64 6.5 IP27
# ../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*
Out of memory.
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Solaris:
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# uname -a
SunOS sync 5.7 Generic_106541-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
# psrinfo -v
Status of processor 0 as of: 03/17/01 19:40:57
  Processor has been on-line since 03/05/01 15:18:50.
  The sparcv9 processor operates at 296 MHz,
        and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
Status of processor 1 as of: 03/17/01 19:40:57
  Processor has been on-line since 03/05/01 15:18:53.
  The sparcv9 processor operates at 296 MHz,
        and has a sparcv9 floating point processor.
#
# ls ../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*/../*
^C
^C

Shell doesn't respond anymore, but load stays around 1.00.
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Linux:  I've tried this on Mandrake 7.2, and the system becomes very
unstable and freezes in the end.  I had to hard reset the computer.

My $0.02:  I don't really see this as a bug, since it has to be
executed as root, and depending on your shell, you can limit normal
users' memory usage (ulimit/limit?).

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