Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 May 2007 20:15:32 +0530 | From | "Anand Jahagirdar" <> | Subject | Fork Bombing Attack |
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Hello All I have set per user process limit ( ulimit) for both root and guest account as 8000 by using option ulimit -u 8000.this is Hard limit. still fork bombing attack killed the box and machine needed reboot. will any body please tell me why this is so? i have tried all this attack on machine with FC6 and Linux kernel 2.6.18.
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