Subject: Re: increasing a process's max data size
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Sean Davis <dive@endersgame.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/08/2003 02:32:55
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On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 02:20:34AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > Any userland program that is able to produce a kernel panic mean
> > there is a kernel bug - no ifs no buts - userland must not be able to
> > crash the kernel no matter what.
>=20
> dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/mem

Last time I tried that (out of curiosity) I didn't get a kernel panic, I
just got a real quick reboot :P

Plus you have to be root for it to work, I don't think you have to be root
to run squid. Though I haven't touched squid in years, so I dunno.

-Sean

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