Fork bombing a Linux machine as a non-root user

[Jephthah]

On Saturday, March 19, 2005 11:24 AM, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> 
> How about this idea:
> Implement a process _creation_rate_ limit.  That way, if 
> someone did try to fork-bomb the system, it would see the 
> enormous number of
> fork() commands in a short period of time and do something to 
> slow the process down or kill it and its children.  The only 
> reason to start up several hundred processes within a few 
> seconds is to fork-bomb the system (at least I cannot think 
> of another reason).  

At my work, I forked a few hundred processes to remotely update a batch
of networked devices scattered across remote locations.  

Now why you tryin to keep a brother down?