H VC wrote: > [hvc@condor hvc] $ su `perl -e 'print "A" x 100000000'` > > and my box got practically frozen. > I'm on a K6-II 500 , 128 MB and 550 of swap. As root: # su `perl -e 'print "A" x 100000000'` bash: /bin/su: Argument list too long This is on a Celeron 333 w/384MB of physical RAM. Red Hat 7.1 It took about a minute and a half to come back, and top says that bash was using 415MB of memory. I suspect you're just beating the crap out of swap, and need more RAM or process limits. BB
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