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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:51:37 -0500
From: Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net>
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Subject: Re: Forking shell bombs
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On an Athlon 600 running 2.4.20, with ulimit -u 2047, the box recovers
no problem from the fork bomb.

On my Celeron 800 running 2.4.21, ulimit -u 1500, the box recovers after
4-5 minutes.

ulimit -u 2047 (Debian's default ulimit), the box fights for 5-10
minutes, and no longer responds after 10.  I can see fork perrors in
the terminal like usual, but the machine no longer responds. (I waited
more than half an hour.)

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Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253
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