Re: Sucerity Related: Disable a Forkbomb.

["STeve Andre'" <andres_(_at_)_msu_(_dot_)_edu>]

But ramping the number of processes downwards is only a partial solution,
isn't it?  I mean, say you've set the limit at 40.  Vandal gets on and copies
his cookbook's fork code, and runs it.  It's limited to 40 processes at a time,
but still, the fork bomb is running, isn't it?  Creating a huge load on the 
system.
So while it won't kill the system outright, it will still be very noticeable.

--STeve Andre'

At 12:22 PM 9/25/00 -0700, David Terrell wrote:
> OpenBSD sets default userlimits which prevent users from having more
> than n processes (n is 80 by default).
>
> We don't need any addons, patches, random source downloaded off the net,
> or anything else to prevent this kind of thing.
>
> On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 07:31:49PM +0200, Sacha Ligthert wrote:
> > Hoi OpenBSD-ppl,
> >
> > Small question.
> > Is there a way to disable a forkbomb loading up??
> > For Linux you have all sorts of things. Like Rex Forkbomb Defuser and
> > alike. Are there any alternatives??
> >
> > Greetings,
> >       Sacha Ligthert
> >
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> >
> >
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