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minus-squared3Xt3rlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoA 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).
minus-squareditherwitherlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoIf 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)
minus-squared3Xt3rlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoJust 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.
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).
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)
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.