Re: System Panic Makes My Life Easier

On Thu, 2016-07-28 at 17:14 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:58:25 +0000 (UTC)
> Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel-R/FLGEdV95bo9U
> +Z1CfBt0SU0eOFXohjCypLqA8HKkk-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 13:34:59 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > My prime number generator hits the processor and RAM hard, and
> also
> > > exercises the hard disk. It's pretty easy to compile and run it on
> a
> > > live CD:
> > > 
> > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/primenumbers/  
> > primenumbers.htm#_Implementation:_Scalability_Through_Paging
> > > 
> > > If you run my prime number generator, watch your processor
> > > temperature like a hawk.  
> > 
> > It may have hit the processor hard in a desirable way when you wrote
> > it, but today, SMP is the norm, and the code above is
> > single-threaded, and due to its other resource usage, you can't just
> > run multiple instances.
> 
> What if I run four of them, and three of them are piped to /dev/null?

You can't pipe the RAM usage to /dev/null.