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Linux Kernel Security, Again
Jason Miller, 2005-03-16

It's a sad day when an ancient fork bomb attack can still take down most of the latest Linux distributions.

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Linux Kernel Security, Again 2005-03-17
Jason V. Miller (Author)
"How can you tell the difference between something like a heavily loaded web server and a fork bomb?"

If you're running a heavily loaded Web server, you should increase the default limits (assuming that they are reasonably set) to handle the load that is acceptable for your machine.

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