Re: Forking shell bombs

Ryan Underwood
2003-07-08T22:40:24Z

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.)

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