From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Martin Olsson <mnemo@minimum.se>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ubuntu Devel Discuss <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to give the user the option to cancel forkbombs?
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:46:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071116234647.5825b76c@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473E9290.3040006@minimum.se>
> 3. Run this command:
>
> :(){ :|:& };:
>
> 4. Ubuntu starts to work furiously, after less than a second terminal
> gets flooded with "low resources" message,
Set your system with suitable process and user resource limits. Also I'd
suggest setting memory overcommit to strict.
Our default behaviour is relaxed as it is usually the right thing for a
generic desktop box.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-16 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-17 5:51 Martin Olsson
2007-11-16 21:31 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-17 7:04 ` Martin Olsson
2007-11-16 23:46 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-11-17 6:45 ` Dane Mutters
2007-11-17 7:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-17 10:39 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-17 13:36 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-17 15:28 ` Herbert Xu
2007-11-17 17:42 ` Martin Olsson
2007-11-17 10:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-11-17 15:53 ` Diego Calleja
2007-11-17 17:55 ` Dane Mutters
2007-11-23 7:34 ` Radoslaw Szkodzinski
2007-11-22 0:05 ` (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
2007-11-22 12:03 ` David Newall
2007-11-16 21:38 ` Diego Calleja
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