From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Anand Jahagirdar <anandjigar@gmail.com>
Cc: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fork Bombing Attack
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 17:52:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46536616.2050500@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25ae38200705180413s741cac1bw9fe0dc57cecc2a91@mail.gmail.com>
Anand Jahagirdar wrote:
> Hello All
> I tried to execute a program which creates 8152 process.(
> i=0; while( i<14) i++ fork(); ) with ulimit 8200. This program
> created 8152 processes and then stopped and came back to command
> prompt. this proves that my machine do have sufficient resources to
> create 8000 processes.
Perhaps, but it does not necessarily result in 8000+ processes
all in existence at the same time. Unless there's more to that
program than the one line you show above.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-22 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-17 14:45 Fork Bombing Attack Anand Jahagirdar
2007-05-17 15:01 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-05-18 11:13 ` Anand Jahagirdar
2007-05-18 13:07 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-05-18 13:19 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-05-18 17:22 ` Anand Jahagirdar
2007-05-18 17:49 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-05-18 21:21 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-18 22:40 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-05-22 21:52 ` Mark Lord [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-17 7:25 Fork bombing Attack Anand Jahagirdar
2007-05-17 7:39 ` Marat Buharov
2007-05-17 9:07 ` Alan Cox
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