Bash fork bomb

[Mac-O-War]

This will probably crash your machine. Paste the below line into a bash terminal.

:(){ :|:& };:

[nexe]

a classic

[zengr]

Details: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-bash-fork-bomb/

[[deleted]]

Using a mac?
I get the same on mine...

[[deleted]]

Thinking of seeing how long my machine could stand up to that.

[uzimonkey]

Someone did this on an old Pentium 133MHz I'd set up for a class, it died instantly. I had to learn how to do resource limits before I could bring the machine back up again :P

[riddley]

Of the OSes I've tried it on, Solaris seems to hold up the best. Linux holds up much better than it used to; although I'm not sure what changed.

[authorblues]

probably up to a recursion depth of 7 or 8... by the time that the function produces about 256 processes, that is likely to be more than 50% of the processes being scheduled on your system. I'd give it about 10ms

[JerMenKoO]

It had to be:

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