On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 01:33:36AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Non of these "forced sleep" ideas will do anything to stop the fork bomb
> per se -- all they will do is reduce the amount of CPU such processes
> might consume and maybe, just maybe, allow a few of their already very
> few active pages to be paged out for a tiny amount of time.  But that
> doesn't really help in any significant way (other than save some
> operator who was trained in single-user system environment a few hairs
> while he or she frets about all the wrong things).
> 
> Such bad hacks are not necessary -- and they don't really solve anything.

... Really?

Greg, if you _really_ want to know why a fork bomb matters, feel free to
contact me. I'll send you the source code.

Jun-Young

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Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org>