Re: Forking shell bombs

Ryan Underwood (nemesis-lists@icequake.net)
Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:25:17 -0500


Hi,

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 04:43:18PM -0400, jhigdon wrote:
>
> Have you tried this on any 2.5.x kernels? Just curious to see what it
> does, I plan on giving it a go later.

I haven't, but a previous poster indicated that they had (2.5.74) with
the same results.

I wonder if we could find an upper limit on the number of allowable
processes that would leave the box in a workable state? Unfortunately,
I don't have a spare box to test such things on at the moment. ;)

Thanks,

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