Fork bombing a Linux machine as a non-root user

[Charles A. Crayne]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:39:51 +0200
Markku Kolkka <markkuk at tuubi.net> wrote:

:My machine has the limit set at 8191. Looks like it's determined 
:dynamically, maybe from RAM size? I have 512MB.

Adding another data point, my default FC3SMP with 1024MB has:
max user processes (-u) 16383

-- Chuck