Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758683AbXEQOpr (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 10:45:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753169AbXEQOpg (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 10:45:36 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.239]:60902 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753995AbXEQOpf (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 10:45:35 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=MrKgUHYo0UG+xd79WN+BtwTXt6xdQlRZAagBIQcjTsu1cb4NHmJbDg/gBQ71x1uL3nFEVTH2yfYhRYojzlPhVabcB0RcslUATuBiOguXH8MVjX1rBw8W0sGIG1ahmVICkI5QXz1lP8F4Jv3wR9BGT0DeTf2INm9MHu57DwcPBqM= Message-ID: <25ae38200705170745t4a80e7eer413b3c2bb0c5a327@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 20:15:32 +0530 From: "Anand Jahagirdar" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Fork Bombing Attack MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 606 Lines: 14 Hello All I have set per user process limit ( ulimit) for both root and guest account as 8000 by using option ulimit -u 8000.this is Hard limit. still fork bombing attack killed the box and machine needed reboot. will any body please tell me why this is so? i have tried all this attack on machine with FC6 and Linux kernel 2.6.18. Regards Anand - 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/