28 Jun
2007
28 Jun
'07
5:37 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Sridhar Ayengar once stated:
M H Stein wrote:
I have. And someone I know has also done that.
My crash: Linux 2.0.39. A CGI based program I wrote (in C) had a show
stopping bug that would cause the system to lock up tight. I did fix the
bugs, then added some system calls to limit the amount of RAM and CPU to use
to that script. I think the limiting code works, as I haven't had that
problem in the three or four years since.
The other person's crash: IRIX 4.0.5 on a Personal IRIS 4D-35. The
sequence of events go like this: run screen, then under that, run an IRC
client set to log a particular channel (in this case, an X-Files channel
[1]), then detach from screen and log out. Instant kernel panic.
Repeatable even.
-spc (I also found an SGI C compiler bug under IRIX 4.0.5 ... )
[1] I am *not* making this up (cue spooky music).
If your system crashes daily or even weekly,
I'd recommend that you
find a qualified computer professional to fix it for you...
If you write *any* code at all on Windows, you can expect to crash the
OS fairly regularly. I've written *Java* code that ran *in the VM* that
crashed the OS. And don't tell me not to write buggy code, everyone has
a bug or two in their initial revision.
I've never crashed a UNIXy OS with anything short of a hardware problem.