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From: luis@menudo.uh.edu (Network Voyager)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux needs more work to be done!
Date: 9 Jul 1997 12:24:25 -0500
Organization: Computer Services Law Library
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Message-ID: <5q0hg9$ldq@menudo.uh.edu>
References: <5oqbad$1582@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> <5pksev$jr6@balrog.ank.com> <xdobu4he7a3.fsf@muffin.rs.itd.umich.edu> <5pm4jt$73@zwei.siemens.at>
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In article <5pm4jt$73@zwei.siemens.at>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@pc7537.hil.siemens.at> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.advocacy Timothy Watson <tmwatson@muffin.rs.itd.umich.edu> wrote:
>: kevin@balrog.ank.com (Kevin Smathers) writes:
>: > Doctor doctor, it hurts when I run headlong into a brick wall, is this
>: > a sign of poor physical condition.
>
>: He has a point, but I wonder if taskmgr could be brought up on an
>: NT-machine with a forkbomb running. Maybe I'll try that.
>
>i tried a forkbomb on a 32 megs RAM 2.0.30 Linux box for kicks, and
>after system load was up to 700 [i recompiled the kernel with 1024
>max processes] no more processes could be started. It took about
>3-4 minutes to kill off all processes (via killall), and the box
>continued working.
What is a forkbomb?
>
>so i would say latest Linux cannot be killed via forkbombs.
>
>-- mingo
>
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