On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:53:49AM -0000, Marc Henry Galang wrote: > most of them are on the 2.2 kernel, except mandrake 9.1, and mandrake 8.0 > which Ive upgraded to 2.4.20. all of have the same results even the with > the lastest kernels.
You can try the same thing on any version of Solaris, AIX, HP/UX or any other commercial Unix you can name, and your fork bomb will eventually kill all of them unless appropriate per-user process and memory limits have been set. In particular, running your fork bomb as root is a quick way of killing any of them. :) The only way to prevent this is by judicious use of ulimit and appropriate entries in /etc/security/limits.conf. There's a sweet spot that prevents a user from grabbing enough to make the system grind to a halt and allows them to do useful work. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
