Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:51:27 -0800 | From | Martin Olsson <> | Subject | Is it possible to give the user the option to cancel forkbombs? |
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Dear kernel hackers,
This is a message from below 0x7FFFFFFF. Please look at this bug (it's not a new concept but still): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/163185
I'm no expert but I'd guess the "complete freeze" part of the bug has to do with the kernel, no? It would be nice to have a system which always lets me choose to abort stuff regardless of what kind of program mess I accidently started. Sort of like how you can "always" count on CTRL-ALT-DEL to work. Maybe it's possible to set some kind of MAX_PROCESS_COUNT for each user (I don't know) but it looks like this is not done by default in many distros today?
I mean, this effectively took down both my laptop and made the server of my shared web hosting company unresponsive for >10 mins (maybe it had some auto-reboot mechanism, I'm not sure).
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