Please switch this to importance high! This isn't only a small issue with fork bombs:
I just stopped my system just by accidently holding down "enter" for a second while a video file in nautilus was highlighted. This spawned a vast amount of VLC players which in turn results in excessive swapping. Recovery took about 1/2h just to login on the text console prompt and killall them. Thus any normal user is easily capable bringing down the whole system without proper limits. -- process limit unlimited (regression) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/391761 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
