Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:21:05 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: evading ulimits |
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On Dec 23 2006 19:42, John Richard Moser wrote: >Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> Note that trying to kill all shells is a race between killing them all first >> and them spawning new ones everytime. To stop fork bombs, use killall -STOP >> first, then kill them. > >Yes I know; the point, though, is that they should die automatically >when the process count hits 4096. They do with the first fork bomb; >they keep growing with the second, well past what they should.
They don't just all die when you hit 4096. If you do nothing, 4096 +/- n will stay around.
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