You might suggest folks make this a learning exercise in pam or systemd cgroup limits to protect against fork-bombs [1] Code bugs can accidentally introduce th

You might suggest folks make this a learning exercise in pam or systemd cgroup limits to protect against fork-bombs [1] Code bugs can accidentally introduce the same condition. A starting point for cgroup limits and pam limits would be ServerFault [2] It is a common misconception that today people can just "shoot a vm / container in the head" to solve all problems, but if your problem is buggy code then the new VM / container will crash the moment the code executes. Diagnosing and resolving quickly gets harder without system limits in place. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb [2] - https://serverfault.com/search?q=cgroup+limits https://serverfault.com/search?q=cgroup+limits