you know you have too much time on your hands when

[TeRG]

......you make a very large text file. last time i checked i had one ~= 4 megs. lets see how big it can get before either i ahve to go to knoledge bowl or it crashes my computer.

[TeRG]

5.2 megs.

[Feztaa]

What are you doing to make this text file? Typing random words? Or are you just putting random garbage in it for size, with no actual valuabel content?

TeRG, get Python and try this:

#!/usr/bin/env python

a = range(10000000000000000000000000)

See how long it takes before you have no RAM/Swap left. If you really want the hard disk:

#!/usr/bin/env python

while 1:
 print "HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

and use this like this: code2.py > file

[TeRG]

i just typed random letters and numbers and did about a page. then i copied and pasted it. this was on a 100mhz with 32 megs of ram with win98. it was slower then hell but i got around 11 megs.

[TeRG]

TeRG, get Python and try this:

#!/usr/bin/env python

a = range(10000000000000000000000000)

See how long it takes before you have no RAM/Swap left. *If you really want the hard disk:

#!/usr/bin/env python

while 1:
 *print "HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

and use this like this: code2.py > file

the fist one gave me a integer overflow to large error....and the second one ran until i hit ctrl-z.

[kenshi]

You do know that ctrl z only suspends a program, leaving it in the background right?

[Feztaa]

ROFL. I wonder if TeRG's noticed his HD is full yet...

[TeRG]

You do know that ctrl z only suspends a program, leaving it in the background right?

yah i know that.....but i dont know how to exit it any other way....i got out of linux after that though....

[Schotty]

Ctl-X or Ctl-C kills apps from the command line. Or as root or the process owner, a kill <pid> will do it. Or to complete the useless info rant, a killall -9 <appname>. Hope that helps ya :)