Am Samstag, den 19.03.2005, 15:20 +0100 schrieb Kyrre Ness Sjobak: <snip> > > But bugs in (preinstalled) system software has also been known to cause > a resource exhaustion. I had cups do this to me once (try sending a 400 > mb postscript to gimpprint on a 128 MB RAM computer), or print to a > remote machine called "localhost" - thats effectively a forkbomb... That's what I wanted to point out in my previous post: you can bring the system down with 2 processes (or some other way) while having a running system with several thousand processes, that does it's job. -Thomas
