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Fighting fork bombs

Fighting fork bombs

Posted Apr 4, 2011 15:35 UTC (Mon) by jeremiah (subscriber, #1221)
In reply to: Fighting fork bombs by dtlin
Parent article: Fighting fork bombs

so why not have this fork bomb killer use the limits data to know when a fork bomb has gone off and kill it. I guess to me it seems like if something is constantly bumping up against a limit, there must be something wrong going on, and some configurable action could take place. This seems better than some sort of time based polling mechanism.


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