fork bomb attack

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Sat Mar 19 21:05:07 UTC 2005


On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 05:10:22PM +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> OOMkiller? I have lost all faith in that #"!%?#%?#... Situation:
> You have:

Depends what mode you are using. Mode 2 overcommit will ensure that processes
get told "no memory" at a sane point. It still doesn't deal with who dies 
because there is no right answer (especially on a multi-user box ;))




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