Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935068AbXEVVwh (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 17:52:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762699AbXEVVw1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 17:52:27 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:1909 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756427AbXEVVw1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2007 17:52:27 -0400 Message-ID: <46536616.2050500@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 17:52:22 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anand Jahagirdar Cc: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fork Bombing Attack References: <25ae38200705170745t4a80e7eer413b3c2bb0c5a327@mail.gmail.com> <4051.1179414105@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <25ae38200705180413s741cac1bw9fe0dc57cecc2a91@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <25ae38200705180413s741cac1bw9fe0dc57cecc2a91@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 748 Lines: 16 Anand Jahagirdar wrote: > Hello All > I tried to execute a program which creates 8152 process.( > i=0; while( i<14) i++ fork(); ) with ulimit 8200. This program > created 8152 processes and then stopped and came back to command > prompt. this proves that my machine do have sufficient resources to > create 8000 processes. Perhaps, but it does not necessarily result in 8000+ processes all in existence at the same time. Unless there's more to that program than the one line you show above. - 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/