Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:28:20 +0200 | Subject | Re: forkbombing Linux distributions | From | Matthieu Castet <> |
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> The memory limits aren't good enough either: if you set them low > enough that memory-forkbombs are unperilous for > RLIMIT_NPROC*RLIMIT_DATA, it's probably too low for serious > applications.
yes, if you want to run application like openoffice.org you need at least 200Mo. If you want that your system is usable, you need at least 40 process per user. So 40*200 = 8Go, and it don't think you have all this memory...
I think per user limit could be a solution.
attached a small fork-memory bombing.
Matthieu int main() { while(1){ while(fork()){ malloc(1); } } }
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