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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.

  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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