DOOM as a system administration tool

(thing) by Cid Highwind (3.3 y) (print) ? (I like it!) 5 C!s Sun Sep 17 2000 at 15:56:40

The DOOM system administration tool was written by a bored hacker at university of New Mexico, as a patch to the open-source DOOM engine. Each monster represents a running process, with the PID and name floating over his head. If a monster is wounded, the corresponding process is reniced, and if the monster dies, the process is killed. In the DOOM process manager, processes/monsters can defend themselves against the sysadmin, which makes killing processes more interesting than a quick kill -9.

In crowded systems, processes tend to start killing each other at random (the AI in DOOM isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer). Consider it process darwinism. The strong daemons survive to spawn child processes, and the weak perish and go to the bit bucket. Just hope that your X server is tougher than that rogue netscape process that's slowly devouring your free memory.

The code and a thorough explanation are posted at http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/

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To win the game you must kill me, John Romero	Ion Pulse Vibrator of Doom	Sexually harrassing each other in that cute, non-threatening teenage way	John Romero is going to make you his bitch
Let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet, gentlemen	renice	A Tandy, a BASIC disk, and one bored kid	kill -9
Solaris 8 is broken by default	Doom	the life of a sysadmin	Shonen Knife
This isn't what it looks like	the game of DOOM!	Immortality drawer	bit bucket
Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone renounced violence forever?	Ultimate Doom	Bastard Operator from Hell	Netscape
The worst job interview ever	Toothpicks: Harmless tools useful in maintaining dental hygiene, or HORRIBLE, DEADLY WEAPONS!?	E2 ASCII art	Knife Girl

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