[tech] Apologies

[Grahame Bowland]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 03:04:45PM +0800, Leighton Haynes wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:55:33PM +0800, Alastair Irvine wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 March, 2000 at 02:53:23PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > > Sorry to all I annoyed the other moment, I and acolyte were trying to write 
> > > a fork bomb in minimal C and I ran it without thinking. Hence mussel's recent 
> > > death.
> > 
> > I did wonder about this...
> > 
> >     2:39pm  up 5 days, 17:42, 17 users,  load average: 228.16, 92.51, 34.42
> > 
> I'm unimpressed. We had a fork bomb running on Erwin for 3 days before anyone
> noticed the slightly poor quake performance.

That was a script spawning two for every one process. Myself and Acolytes was:

int main() {
  while(1) { fork(); }
}

which is n times exponential, as the parents keep creating more children.

Mussel died very very quickly. And I didn't even mean to kill it.

-- 
Grahame Bowland

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