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EAD

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Registered: 2006-03-11

Posts: 255

too many process

Hii, I have noticed a bug in linux, when I am making a program in C that do

while(true) fork();

and then run it on other host, the kernel get stuck after a while.
Is there a way to protect against it?
and sencond, after the user have disconncet, Can I kill all those process?
and third, How can I limit the cpu use of each user so no on will make the cpu too busy?
I need the answers as a "root" and also as a reguler user what to do.
Tanx:)

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: too many process

Search the forum for forkbombs and limits.conf.