Re: FreeBSD & Linux [./fork 500 totally hangs my machine 2.1.127]

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
8 Nov 1998 21:50:23 GMT


In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.981108182009.16613M-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk>,
Riley Williams <rhw@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
>Is there a limit on the number of concurrent processes?

There is. And that limit is what makes the program buggy - see my other
email on why it's not a kernel bug at all, and why the program (when run
as root) will kill the system (both on 2.0.x and 2.1.x)

Linus

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