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I wanted to try this out, but I didn't want to kill my daily driver. I fired up a Raspberry Pi 3. perl -e 'fork() while 1;' took it down in about two seconds. I

I wanted to try this out, but I didn't want to kill my daily driver. I fired up a Raspberry Pi 3. perl -e 'fork() while 1;' took it down in about two seconds. I couldn't even switch to a different TTY to kill the processes.

phamilton 7y ago
> I couldn't even switch to a different TTY to kill the processes An interesting technique i've heard is to do: ``` while true; do sleep 10m &; done ``` The goal is to exhaust the PID space, which will cause forking to fail and eventually bring the system back under control.