How to take down a system to the point of requiring a newfs
with one line of C (userland)
Wesley Shields
wxs at FreeBSD.org
Mon Feb 18 10:02:15 PST 2008
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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