FWIW, I just tried it on Vista and W2K. On the latter I was able to recover just fine although it took 2-3 minutes before all my programs were swapped back into RAM. On the former taskmgr.exe just crashed so I could not get the fork bomb to stop but on Vista it can run the fork bomb for 10 minutes and the mouse never stops working nor does the display freeze.
This might also be useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb -- 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
