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Re: The memory occupied by bash has been increasing due to the fork bomb


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: The memory occupied by bash has been increasing due to the fork bomb
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:17:03 -0500
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On 3/10/23 11:37 AM, zju wrote:

I have already set the maximum number of processes available to a single user 
"ulimit -Su”.
But the memory occupied by bashes were increasing all the time which would call 
oom.This is the key issue.

If you don't see an error message from bash about fork failing, then fork
hasn't failed, and the processes continue to run.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/




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