Re: %u-order allocation failed

David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com)
Fri, 5 Oct 2001 15:06:25 -0700


>The system is beafy enough to tolerate something mundane as this. It should
>definitely not die.

A fork bomb with no limits attempts to create an infinite number of
processes. No system can be that beefy.

DS

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