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Originally Posted by D-cat After you recover from that, everything will appear to run fast! Thanks, I did that.. Everybody started moaning the server got slow. I fixed it. Everybody ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by D-cat View Post
    After you recover from that, everything will appear to run fast!
    Thanks, I did that..



    Everybody started moaning the server got slow. I fixed it. Everybody loves me now since the system is(seems) faster then that it used to be
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    Now you've got me interested - what does it do?
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    Its a Forkbomb.

    <windows bash on>
    it turns your linux into Windows
    </windows bash off>

    Ok, but lets stop being silly.
    It crashes the system as it keeps spawning..
    Fork bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    lol hahaha that's great But it seems like the problem is solved anyways, not sure why for those 24 hours it had so many issues. As for new users suggesting formatting, please don't, ever In most cases a format is unnecessary and it's the bone heads at places like Best Buy who immediately say "FORMAT!", that's not the "go to solution" for Linux....although I can admit I do it frequently but that's just for selfish reasons haha
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    That's kind of elegant but I prefer the perl one

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    fork while fork
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