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imported post - 12-07-05, 06:23 PM

I have accidentally discovered a way to crash Linux. There is a screensaver with a BUG in it.

The "piecewise" screensaver eats memory continuously while it is running. It eventually starts consuming swap space and when it runs out CRASH!

I found I could run multiple screensavers and was experimenting with increasing the CPU load on the machine when the memory consumption started. When I noticed one program was using 40% of the memory on my new machine with a Gig of memory I knew that had to be the culprit.

I did a Google search and found someone had reported this on a Red Hat site in October 2004. The program is still being put on current distros.

Don't run PIECEWISE. It looks cool but it ain't.

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