Lowering the priority of the fork bomb wont change things much at all. 
fork bombs do their work with very little resources anyway! just deny the 
fork. It really isuneccessary to do anything more than that. 
isildur
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Gary Thorpe wrote:
> Would lowering the process priority of the offending process
> temporarily be a good alternative to sleeping or is it all just a bad
> idea? Would cpu hogs get lowered priorities anyway, making this
> unneeded?