Re: Forking shell bombs

[Wakko Warner]

> Nope, on my system running stock 2.4.21, after hitting enter, wait about 2
> seconds, and the system is frozen.  Telnet connects but never gets a
> shell.  None of the SysRq process-killing combos have any effect.  After
> a few failed killalls (which eventually killed the one shell I was able
> to get), and Alt-SysRq-S never completing the sync, I gave up and
> Alt-SysRq-B.

I've used killall -STOP several times since it will fill up the process
table.  once they're all in T state, I killall -KILL them.  seems to work
for me.

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