From: Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Forking shell bombs
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:51:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030708225137.GA1031@dbz.icequake.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F0B2CE6.8060805@nni.com>
On an Athlon 600 running 2.4.20, with ulimit -u 2047, the box recovers
no problem from the fork bomb.
On my Celeron 800 running 2.4.21, ulimit -u 1500, the box recovers after
4-5 minutes.
ulimit -u 2047 (Debian's default ulimit), the box fights for 5-10
minutes, and no longer responds after 10. I can see fork perrors in
the terminal like usual, but the machine no longer responds. (I waited
more than half an hour.)
--
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-08 22:40 UTC|newest]
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2003-07-08 20:28 ` Forking shell bombs Ryan Underwood
2003-07-08 20:37 ` vlad
2003-07-08 20:43 ` jhigdon
2003-07-08 21:25 ` Ryan Underwood
2003-07-08 22:43 ` Sir Ace
2003-07-09 15:07 ` David Ford
2003-07-09 21:10 ` Ryan Underwood
2003-07-13 9:10 ` Riley Williams
2003-07-13 9:40 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-07-13 14:17 ` Gene Heskett
2003-07-08 21:59 ` system_lists
2003-07-08 17:18 ` Max Valdez
2003-07-08 22:25 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-08 22:26 ` Svein Ove Aas
2003-07-08 22:51 ` Ryan Underwood [this message]
2003-07-10 12:32 ` Luiz Capitulino
2003-07-08 23:05 ` Wakko Warner
2003-07-09 11:36 ` Michael Buesch
2003-07-09 11:05 Arvind Kandhare
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-08 22:26 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2003-07-08 18:45 Ryan Underwood
2003-07-08 18:55 ` Charles Cazabon
2003-07-08 22:01 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-08 19:23 ` jhigdon
2003-07-08 20:35 ` vlad
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