Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:01:43 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: Maximum number of processes in Linux |
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linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > Yep.... > > #include <stdio.h> > #include <signal.h> > int main() > { > unsigned long i; > for(i = 0; ; i++) > { > switch(fork()) > { > case 0: // kid > pause(); > break; > case -1: // Failed > printf("%lu\n", i); > kill(0, SIGTERM); > exit(0); > default: > break; > } > } > return 0; > } > > Shows a consistent 6140. > Doesn't work here. Without ulimit, I wasn't surprised about the resulting OOM mess.
Problem was, it never stopped. I expected OOM to kill this program, and quite possibly lots of other running programs as well. What I got, was ever-rolling OOM messages with stack traces inbetween. 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 never recovered and had to be killed by sysrq.
Helge Hafting
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