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From: dpassage@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (David G. Paschich)
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Subject: Re: How do you make your UNIX crash ???
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Date: 19 Mar 91 04:40:56 GMT
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In article <JCO.91Mar18112624@crane.cis.ufl.edu> jco@crane.cis.ufl.edu (Dumpmaster John) writes:
>
>Someone talked about a 3 line script to crash a unix box here (but I can't
>find that message.)  
>
>Anyway, what the script was:
>
>while (1) do
>   mkdir 1; cd 1
>end
>
>Minus some shell syntax.  this is it.  However, on newer OS's this won't
>work.  I think it has a minfree on the inodes as well, or some thing like
>that.

A while back on the machine run by the CS Undergrad Assn. here at UC
Berkeley there was a tongue-in-cheek "Space Warrior" competition to try to
get people to clean up their disk space.  One guy won by writing a little
program which malloc'ed 1 meg of memory until the disk was 99% full.  This
works on Apollos because the swap is kept in a "first-class file", not in a
separate partition.
David G. Paschich    Open Computing Facility    UC Berkeley
dpassage@ocf.berkeley.edu    
"I'm so happy I can't stand myself" -- Adam Glass