As Alejandro said, yeah, you can set limits on the maximum process count. To stall a forkbomb you first want to killall -STOP its associated processes, then killall them.
-- ubuntu freezes completely (all graphics and mouse) when executing shell ascii forkbomb https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/163185 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
