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post Oct 12 2009, 10:21 PM
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ITT: we see how many programs we can run before our system starts becoming unusably slow.

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post Oct 13 2009, 03:59 PM
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Perhaps Windows' copy-on-write mechanism is more conservative than that of Unix and Linux. At any rate, a fork bomb works by filling up the process table (which maps a process to its virtual memory space), and not by using up RAM itself.
 

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