there's an accepted answer here which i found straight away by googling "Fork Bomb" http://askubuntu.com/questions/159491/why-did-the-command-make-my-system-la

there's an accepted answer here which i found straight away by googling "Fork Bomb" http://askubuntu.com/questions/159491/why-did-the-command-make-my-system-lag-so-badly-i-had-to-reboot http://askubuntu.com/questions/159491/why-did-the-command-ma...