| Article 15897 of alt.folklore.computers: | |
| Newsgroups: | alt.folklore.computers |
| Path: | icdoc!dds |
| From: | dds@doc.ic.ac.uk (Diomidis Spinellis) |
| Subject: | Re: Competition: Most Antisocial Unix Program |
| Nntp-Posting-Host: | dirty.doc.ic.ac.uk |
| Message-ID: | <1991Oct31.162805.2466@doc.ic.ac.uk> |
| Organization: | Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, England |
| Date: | Thu, 31 Oct 1991 16:28:05 GMT |
| References: | <24746@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1991Oct31.111240.28983@mdd.comm.mot.com> |
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The other day I was trying to find out why our system was so slow and I could not even run a ps command due to lack of swap space. It turned out that it was my fault; a hacked nroff macro run awry. It can be summarised in the following script: #!/bin/nroff .de X .X .. .X Be careful it uses all memory it can find. Diomidis -- Diomidis Spinellis Internet: dds@doc.ic.ac.uk Department of Computing UUCP: ...!ukc!icdoc!dds Imperial College, London SW7 #include "/dev/tty"
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