I don't know about linux (and I really should in this case as it's my 'field'), but at least on mac, you can restrict the number of child processes a process ca

I don't know about linux (and I really should in this case as it's my 'field'), but at least on mac, you can restrict the number of child processes a process can spawn with `ulimit -u`: zooey:~ duane$ ulimit -u 709