On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:49:58PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> >This will prevent it from exceeding the procs limits, but it will *not*
> >completely stop it.
>
> What if the few procs that he may spawn also grab so much memory so your
> machine disappears in swap-t(h)rashing?
While I have
Alright, I noticed this article scared a few of my friends, so I decided to
figure out on my own a way to prevent fork bombing from completely disabling
my machine.
This is only one way to do this, and it's not particularly elegant, but it
gets the job done. If you want something more elegant, try
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