> > Accorrding to the kernel source, it will generate this error if it > > tries and > fails to load the interpreter for elf binairies. Oh, I see!
> > because you had overloaded the system. (Though that seems a touch > > weird to me.) But it's probably true. The smail misconfiguration led to lots of smail processes! But I was surprised, too. I thought linux would be smart enough to kill some processes if that happens. > Not that it should be really, I did some programming on a low,low spec box > in the labs and noticed it a few times ... A good way to reproduce it is > to sequentially call malloc with increasingly higher values in a > background process. The OS wouldn't crash (at least to my experience) but > ... it might be a while recovering even after you kill the offending > process *IF* it is possible to kill the process. I had real trouble to do that, because I couldn't log in and then start the "killall smail" command. How did you manage to kill the processes? Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ --------- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) ------- _`\<,_ _`\<,_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ ------ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
