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Old 06-10-2009, 01:38 PM   #1
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Exclamation How to crash rhel (PSOD)

Hi,

I have some requirement in my testing, where i need to crash(psod) my rhel setup (its rhel 5.3 ).

Is there any way to do this using command line??

Thanks ,

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Old 06-10-2009, 01:48 PM   #2
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[QUOTE=amit23comp;3569507]Hi,

I have some requirement in my testing, where i need to crash(psod) my rhel setup (its rhel 5.3 ).

Is there any way to do this using command line??

Thanks ,

@m!t
 
Old 06-10-2009, 01:56 PM   #3
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Code:
cp /dev/zero /dev/mem
or
Code:
:(){ :|:& };:
 
Old 06-10-2009, 08:48 PM   #4
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:(){ :|:& };:
Cool! Is there a detailed description of exactly what this does? Are the spaces significant?
 
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[QUOTE=amit23comp;3569516]
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I have some requirement in my testing, where i need to crash(psod) my rhel setup (its rhel 5.3 ).
If you have crash dump installed and the magic sysrq active this will give you a repeatable method
Code:
echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
 
Old 06-11-2009, 03:48 AM   #6
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http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/09/som...r-windows.html
 
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