Re: Sucerity Related: Disable a Forkbomb.

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

40 processes don't consume a lot of CPU?  I'm going to have to try
that.  On SunOS I know it does.  Well, time to experiment...

--STeve Andre'

At 12:46 PM 9/25/00 -0700, David Terrell wrote:
> There's no resource exhaustion, and processes that take up a lot
> of CPU time start finding themselves at the back of the scheduler
> queue.  After 40 processes exist, no more are created, so you just
> have 40 processes making system calls, which is annoying but not
> fatal.
>
> Then you find the user and kill -9 their processes and take their
> account away.
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