fork() bomb

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Wed, 28 Oct 1998 18:21:52 -0500 (EST)


Linux version 2.1.126 will crash with a fork-bomb. This problem was
previously fixed and did not exist on Version 2.1.123.

total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 31223808 16588800 14635008 9932800 2592768 8163328
Swap: 133885952 0 133885952
MemTotal: 30492 kB
MemFree: 14292 kB
MemShared: 9700 kB
Buffers: 2532 kB
Cached: 7972 kB
SwapTotal: 130748 kB
SwapFree: 130748 kB

slabinfo - version: 1.0
kmem_cache 27 42
tcp_tw_bucket 0 42
tcp_bind_bucket 28 127
tcp_open_request 0 63
skbuff_head_cache 32 175
sock 53 66
filp 429 462
signal_queue 0 0
buffer_head 2584 2604
mm_struct 26 93
vm_area_struct 338 1071
dentry_cache 471 496
files_cache 25 70
uid_cache 2 127
size-131072 0 0
size-65536 0 0
size-32768 0 0
size-16384 1 2
size-8192 14 14
size-4096 5 6
size-2048 62 104
size-1024 5 8
size-512 107 112
size-256 13 28
size-128 499 600
size-64 42 84
size-32 191 252
slab_cache 60 63

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
Penguin : Linux version 2.1.126 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips).
Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.

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