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On any system with sane defaults for limits this won't crash the machine merely bog it down a tad. I've successfully ran it on FreeBSD machines without any iss
by X-Istence 16y ago
On any system with sane defaults for limits this won't crash the machine merely bog it down a tad.
I've successfully ran it on FreeBSD machines without any issues, now on Linux or Mac OS X it is bad news :P
- 1amzave 16y agoHm? Though on Linux I'm sure it varies from distro to distro, my Fedora 10 box has ulimit -u at 1024, and my OSX 10.6 install has it at 266 (2^8 + 10? Wonder how they decided on that number). (And yes, I tried forkbombing them for the hell of it, both systems took it entirely in stride, as would be expected.) Does anyone know of any current distros that don't set a sensible process limit in the default install?
- avar 16y agoOn both Debian and Ubuntu `ulimit -u` returns `unlimited` for me.