Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla said: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:56:24AM -0000, Marc Henry Galang wrote: >> do you think it would work too on those Large CRAY Supercomputer running >> linux? > > Oh yes... Not even if it's running Linux, even if it's running UNICOS or > whatever native OS it uses. Give it a little more time and eventually > the fork bomb will grind even those machines to a halt. Even if it's a > lot more than what we usually see, a Cray supercomputer still has a > finite amount of memory and computing resources. The growth of resource > consumption for a fork bomb is exponentially unbounded, so if you run it > for long enough, it can eventually kill anything provided no limits (or > unreasonably high limits) are imposed on the resources it can consume.
hmm... thats interesting, even in a cluster? Coz if im right, the structure of the Cray with UNICOS/mx is somehow like a beowulf cluster, One(or I think more than 1) Mother OS(es) controling and checking the heartbeats of the child OSes, so if you will fork bomb one of the child OS, yes it will eventually die but then the Mother OS will soon see that its dead and it will reboot it. If you fork Bomb the Mother OS(which I think is more than 1), they will just reboot theirselves again if they see that one of their partners are dead, theirfore the whole system is not interupted, although it would be annoying. Also, this large supercomputers has I think tools to manage their resources automatically and efficiently. > Just like Agent Smith, if you will. :) [OT] Just for fun, speaking of Agent smith, what if he forked himself too much that the memory of the matrix run out of resources, what do you think would happen to the matrix? maybe it would hang too, eh? or even crash... :) -- "linux domination is simple, just type $rm -rf /mnt/windows" Marc Henry Galang Web references: www.free.net.ph/Members/marc/, Google => "Marc Henry Galang". MD5 Signature = 904a13d379c58ec8ea964bbbf0a5e55c -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
