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ecchi · 2017-03-05, 09:38 AM

At the moment I am mostly working on crashing an entire server farm.

My hosting company sent me a frantic email yesterday. I've been working on a script for ClitPass which is not working. The host told me that they had deleted the script "for the good of the server", because it had generated an error report 1.7tb long (yes 1.7 terabytes)!

That takes some doing, particularly since I've only run it a few dozen times. I can only assume I created an infinity loop with an error in it, that caused it to repeatedly send an error report many, many, many times a second.

Unfortunately I had been working on the script much of the day, and by the time they emailed me I had changed it so much that the error had gone, so I'll never know what I did to create this massive error report (no software I know of is capable of even opening a 1.7tb text file, let alone read it).

2017-03-05, 09:38 AM	#4
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	At the moment I am mostly working on crashing an entire server farm. My hosting company sent me a frantic email yesterday. I've been working on a script for ClitPass which is not working. The host told me that they had deleted the script "for the good of the server", because it had generated an error report 1.7tb long (yes 1.7 *terabytes*)! That takes some doing, particularly since I've only run it a few dozen times. I can only assume I created an infinity loop with an error in it, that caused it to repeatedly send an error report many, many, many times a second. Unfortunately I had been working on the script much of the day, and by the time they emailed me I had changed it so much that the error had gone, so I'll never know what I did to create this massive error report (no software I know of is capable of even opening a 1.7tb text file, let alone read it).