fork bomb attack

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

lør, 19.03.2005 kl. 22.05 skrev Alan Cox:
> 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 ;))

This was a pretty much out-of-the-box configured fedora 3 test 2, i
believe. It shouldn't behave that way...

Anyway, it ended with me loosing my temper and pulling the box'es
powercord out of the wall (as my login attemts only resulted in
timeouts...).