Re: Fork bombing a Linux machine as a non-root user

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Subject: Re: Fork bombing a Linux machine as a non-root user
From: "Charles A. Crayne" <ccrayne@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:27:33 -0800
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On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:39:51 +0200
Markku Kolkka <markkuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:My machine has the limit set at 8191. Looks like it's determined 
:dynamically, maybe from RAM size? I have 512MB.

Adding another data point, my default FC3SMP with 1024MB has:
max user processes (-u) 16383

-- Chuck

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