# Somebody slap me if I'm missing something obvious, but shouldn't this have
# absolutely no effect on the system whatsoever until the allocated memory is
# written to? Was the copy-on-write protection taken out of the kernel?
I am currently running his program and it isn't really affecting
anything....
10:51pm up 1 day, 8:50, 8 users, load average: 0.75, 0.30, 0.11
37 processes: 36 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU0 states: 1.1% user, 1.3% system, 0.0% nice, 98.3% idle
CPU1 states: 0.1% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 99.2% idle
Mem: 192932K av, 189852K used, 3080K free, 6488K shrd, 9828K buff
Swap: 128508K av, 128504K used, 4K free 8592K cached
PID PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE WCHAN STAT %CPU %MEM TIME MCPU COMMAND
8956 12 0 568 548 388 R 1.1 0.2 0:04 1 top
174 8 0 1284 1284 1104 open_name S 0.5 0.6 15:37 0 xntpd
8955 5 0 278M 156M 40 do_sigact S 0.3 82.9 0:19 0 ./crashme
The responsiveness of my other consoles got iffy for a while, but once I
used them for a sec or two they started reacting normally.
#
# (COW is a band-aid patch anyway since it's so easily defeated by malicious
# programs)
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