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Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 15:12:39 -0800
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Peter da Silva wrote:
......
> Well, you can run Crashme. It's nasty... it traps *all* exceptions then runs
> randomly generated code until the system kills the process or crashes, or
> you get tired of waiting for it to go down.

I've run it for about 3 hours on a heavily overloaded
Red Hat 4.0 with 2.0.28 kernel, tired of it eating CPU
time and killed it. We need something more aggressive.

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