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The effect is interesting. I ran it and, sure enough, started running out of memory. However, simply killing the yes process didn't stop it. I had to kill the b
by anonymous 14y ago
The effect is interesting. I ran it and, sure enough, started running out of memory. However, simply killing the yes process didn't stop it. I had to kill the bash process in which I had typed the command.
- ygra 14y agoProbably yes was just waiting for the write buffer to clear so it could write again while bash was busy asking the system for more memory which was busy swapping everything to make room.