Re: How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs with one line of C (userland)

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:25:29AM -0800, Peter Sanchez wrote:

On Feb 18, 2008, at 7:07 AM, Wesley Shields wrote:


I tried this using /tmp/ as argv[1] and it didn't crash a 6.2 machine or
a -current from a few weeks ago. Maybe the number of files has to be
increased? I bumped it up to 100000 and tried on a 6.2 machine, but I
ran out of inodes before I could induce a crash. :)

Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

I believe the panic doesn't occur until boot. Did you reboot the box after
writing the files to /tmp?

Peter

I did on a 6.2 machine with 10000 files in /tmp. I can reboot the
-current machine later tonight if you think it will make a difference.

-- WXS
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