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From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <knuffie@xs4all.nl>, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Krzysztof Rusocki <kszysiu@main.braxis.co.uk>,
	<linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: %u-order allocation failed
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 15:06:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011005220627.AAA22897@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.10.10110052208390.303-100000@xs3.xs4all.nl>


>The system is beafy enough to tolerate something mundane as this. It should
>definitely not die.

	A fork bomb with no limits attempts to create an infinite number of 
processes. No system can be that beefy.

	DS



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-05 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-05 11:07 %u-order allocation failed Krzysztof Rusocki
2001-10-05 11:59 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-05 20:18   ` Seth Mos
2001-10-05 20:22     ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-05 20:31       ` Seth Mos
2001-10-05 20:43         ` Steve Lord
2001-10-05 21:09           ` Seth Mos
2001-10-05 22:06     ` David Schwartz [this message]
2001-10-05 22:16       ` Seth Mos
2001-10-06 14:00   ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-10-06 14:03     ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-06 14:44       ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-10-06 15:31         ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-10-06 19:05           ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-10-06 16:58         ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-06 17:48           ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-10-06 18:12             ` Anton Blanchard
2001-10-06 19:07               ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-10-06 20:13                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-06 22:34                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-10-07  1:23                     ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-07 11:12                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2001-10-06 21:13                 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-06 22:31                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-10-06 22:42                     ` Alan Cox
2001-10-06 22:58                       ` Mikulas Patocka
     [not found]                         ` <Pine.LNX.3.96.1011007003803.18004D-100000@artax.karlin.mff.cuni .cz>
2001-10-06 23:36                           ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
     [not found]                     ` <Pine.LNX.3.96.1011007002406.18004A-100000@artax.karlin.mff.cuni .cz>
2001-10-06 23:34                       ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-10-07  7:35             ` Pavel Machek
     [not found]         ` <Pine.LNX.3.96.1011006164044.29342B-200000@artax.karlin.mff.cuni .cz>
2001-10-06 17:59           ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-10-06 19:13             ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-10-06 19:22               ` arjan
2001-10-06 22:36                 ` Mikulas Patocka
     [not found]               ` <Pine.LNX.3.96.1011006210743.7808D-100000@artax.karlin.mff.cuni. cz>
2001-10-06 23:26                 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-10-07 18:30                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-08 15:01                     ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-10-07 18:32                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-10-07  9:40         ` Alan Cox
2001-10-07 12:28           ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-10-07 14:12             ` Alan Cox
2001-10-07 15:42               ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-10-07 22:01                 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 15:08                   ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-10-08 16:44                   ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-08 22:21                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-10-08 21:16                     ` David Lang
     [not found]                     ` <Pine.LNX.3.96.1011009001720.20446A-100000@artax.karlin.mff.cuni .cz>
2001-10-08 22:53                       ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-10-08 23:31                         ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-10-08 23:44                           ` Alan Cox
2001-10-08 23:46                             ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-10-09  9:45                               ` Pavel Machek
2001-10-08 23:48                           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-08 23:54                             ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-10-09 11:48                             ` Rik van Riel

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