Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261612AbVCWOVy (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:21:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262398AbVCWOVy (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:21:54 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:8155 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261612AbVCWOVr (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:21:47 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: forkbombing Linux distributions Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:20:51 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20050322112628.GA18256@roll> <20050322124812.GB18256@roll> <20050322125025.GA9038@roll> <9cde8bff050323025663637241@mail.gmail.com> <1111581459.27969.36.camel@nc> <9cde8bff05032305044f55acf3@mail.gmail.com> <1111586058.27969.72.camel@nc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.80-203-227.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:i+UIeVIRmCc8udGDOpaXB1Zhp/o= X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: glk-linux-kernel@m.gmane.org X-MailScanner-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 576 Lines: 14 Natanael Copa writes: > well, the problem here has that stupid fork bombs like: > > :() { :|:& };: > > brings down almost all linux distro's while other *nixes survives. I have seen a SunFire machine with 4GB RAM running Solaris grind to a complete halt from a fork bomb. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru@inprovide.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/