Down that hole

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    A fork bomb no longer works on modern distros which use systemd btw, since systemd imposes limits on the user and system cgroups (IIRC, a user can’t have more than ~10,000 tasks or something).

    • ditherwither@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      If you are low on memory, a fork bomb still works

      I can confirm that it crashed my laptop running fedora 36 (this was a while ago lol)

      • d3Xt3r@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Just tested and confirm it doesn’t work on Fedora 38. When you run it, you get an error saying:

        bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable.

        It still does the loop, but doesn’t slow down the system or anything, and you can easily close the terminal window.

        As I said before, systemd imposes cgroup limits per user so fork bombs no longer work.