Wednesday, December 26, 2012

how to defuse a fork bomb

Defusing a fork bomb can be done in three steps:
  1. find the process name of the bomb, say procForkBomb
  2. stop (freeze) the bomb processes: killall -STOP procForkBomb, and
  3. terminate them: killall -KILL procForkBomb
Wiki provides more details.
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