M. Warner Losh wrote:
> Actually, yes it is hard.  I've cleaned up from several fork bombs and
> you gotta get the right ps | grep | xargs kill right or the fork bomb
> surives.  Even then there is a race between the ps and more processes
> forking.  I usually have to run my ps | grep| xargs kill command
> several times in a row to completely kill the forkbomb w/o a rate
> limiter.

pkill is your friend :)
 
Jaromir
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