Down that hole

  • 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.