I wrote:
> You learn something new every day. Today it's sysrq and linux:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysrq.txt

The poor developers among you may take special note of alt-sysrq-f, which
kills a memory-eating process quite reliably. The good developers among you
never have bugs that cause malloc bombs, of course, and can ignore this.

Arnt