Oops

[bellinghman]

I just accidentally wrote a fork bomb.

Thank goodness for the fact the process in question had enough of a bottleneck that it couldn't max-out both cores, so I was able to shut everything else down and log off cleanly.

Comments

killall

[tsr2.livejournal.com]

I wonder if killall could have got them faster than they were forking? Or were you on a different OS?

Re: killall

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Windows. So yes.