Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> I've set up some stuff on my box where /etc/security/limits.conf
>> contains the following:
>>
>> @users soft nproc 3072
>> @users hard nproc 4096
>>
>> I'm in group users, and a simple fork bomb is easily quashed by this:
>>
>> bluefox@icebox:~$ :(){ :|:; };:
>> bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>> Terminated
>>
>> Oddly enough, trying this again and again yields the same results; but,
>> I can kill the box (eventually; about 1 minute in I managed to `/exec
>> killall -9 bash` from x-chat, since I couldn't get a new shell open)
>> with the below:
>
> Note that trying to kill all shells is a race between killing them all first
> and them spawning new ones everytime. To stop fork bombs, use killall -STOP
> first, then kill them.
>
Yes I know; the point, though, is that they should die automatically
when the process count hits 4096. They do with the first fork bomb;
they keep growing with the second, well past what they should.
>
> -`J'
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