Re: deschall harmful to Irix?

Christopher Dickens (cdickens@ntr.net)
Sat, 31 May 1997 11:54:46 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 30 May 1997, Lee Sheridan wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 1997, Christopher Dickens wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 May 1997, Jonas Schlein wrote:
> >
> > > I agree 100%...I've gotten screamed at for running this on some of our
> > > IRIX 5.3 machines and was using a nice value of +20! It was still using
> > > between 85%-99% of the CPU which doesn't make any sense unless I don't
> > > know UNIX like I think I should.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > Duh, people! Try "man nice" You'll find that +20 nice values give the
> > deschall client MORE priority over other programs. For best results, try
> > -19.
>
[crude attempt at making me look stupid]
>
> Duh yourself. Leave UMBC folk alone.

Execute: nice -19 dc64-irix keymaster.verser.frii.com
Lower priority by 19 steps.

Execute: nice +20 dc64-irix keymaster.verser.frii.com
Renders machine unusable by anything but the kernel.
(This may also be started with nice --20 to get the same effect)

CRACK DES NOW!!! http://www.frii.com/~rcv/deschall.htm
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