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From: "Anand Jahagirdar" <anandjigar@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Fork Bombing Attack
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 20:15:32 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25ae38200705170745t4a80e7eer413b3c2bb0c5a327@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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.

Regards
Anand

             reply	other threads:[~2007-05-17 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-17 14:45 Anand Jahagirdar [this message]
2007-05-17 15:01 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-05-18 11:13   ` Anand Jahagirdar
2007-05-18 13:07     ` Michael Tokarev
2007-05-18 13:19     ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-05-18 17:22       ` Anand Jahagirdar
2007-05-18 17:49         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-05-18 21:21         ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-05-18 22:40         ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-05-22 21:52     ` Mark Lord
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-17  7:25 Fork bombing Attack Anand Jahagirdar
2007-05-17  7:39 ` Marat Buharov
2007-05-17  9:07 ` Alan Cox

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