Enough already! (was: Re: MS Laugh-In)

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu Oct 19 03:25:34 2000

Tim Harrison <harrison_at_timharrison.com> wrote:
> Not so. Ever just clicked repeatedly on the back arrow in Netscape
> 4.75? If you hit one of those pages that won't let you use the Back
> arrow to return, you'll lock the entire box. Netscape is garbage, yes,

[Neil wrote much the same thing.]

I've done such things with Netscape, and I've never managed to
get it to crash the Linux kernel. I've had Netscape crash, and I've had
it crash the X server, and I've had it use up all available VM, but
in all cases the Linux kernel continued running just fine.

Arguably it is a deficiency in the kernel that per-process memory limits
aren't implemented (despite there being an API to set them).

The only times I've had seen crashes have been when my hardware was flaky
or I was running a development kernel, or a locally patched "stable" kernel.

Anyhow, this is way off topic.
Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 03:25:34 BST