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how to make mariadb 5.5.30 consume all your memory and crash

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Renouille

Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MariaDB connection id is 1 Server version: 5.5.30-MariaDB MariaDB Server Copyright (c) 2000, 2013, Oracle, Monty Program Ab and others. Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ … Continue reading →

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Good vs bad engineering

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Renouille

Good: if (already_reset) { say “sorry, you’ve already reset before”; exit; } if (have_cart || weight > 0 …) { say “i can’t reset your skills if you have a falcon, cart, …”; exit; } Bad: if (have_cart || weight … Continue reading →

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Branches still abusable

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Renouille

Last month I decided to humor the GMs by reporting a mostly harmless bug. I reported it in public because I believe in transparency and because I didn’t want them just to ignore me or pretend the “bug” didn’t exist … Continue reading →

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