Forkbomb??

[Toby Kelsey]

Stuart Bishop wrote:

> Speaking from personal experience, I was much happier when the software I
> was testing that occasionally decided it needed 1GB of RAM died with a
> memory error rather than wedge my box and possibly corrupt my hard drive.

This is tuneable with /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory and overcommit_ratio

See:
http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/Kernel-2.6.10/vm/overcommit-accounting

Toby