Re: A way to crash an 2.4-test11 kernel

2000-12-23 Thread Harald Welte
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:25:31AM +, Ingo Rohloff wrote: > Hi, > > I found a way to crash an SMP 2.4-test11 kernel: > > 1. Create a BIG file (lets say about 300-400 MByte) > 2. use losetup and the loop device to create an >ext2 filesystem within the file > 3. mount the file > 4. copy hu

A way to crash an 2.4-test11 kernel

2000-12-18 Thread Ingo Rohloff
Hi, I found a way to crash an SMP 2.4-test11 kernel: 1. Create a BIG file (lets say about 300-400 MByte) 2. use losetup and the loop device to create an ext2 filesystem within the file 3. mount the file 4. copy huge amounts of data into the file. (for example copy your /usr directory into