Fork bombs [Windows + Linux]

In this video, we will be exploring what a fork bomb is and demonstrate it by running their correspondations in Windows and Linux.

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[Mrwiseguy]

One of my professors did this on one of the university's machines to show why having a process limit per user is a good idea. Turns out the admins forgot to add a process limit... The machine had to be rebooted and the admins were upset.

[binarypench]

That Linux system's last words for the session before freezing was "(1) 1360"

[MikMik]

Imagine dis being converted to invisible via bat to exe converter and add to start immidiately after reboot!
BOOM! Rip PC!
Btw awesome vid! Fly never disappoints!

[derpythecate]

I had this idea and did it in python before haha, didn't know it was called a fork bomb! Interesting how your implementation is so compact

[anujmalhotra]

This is the content we are subscribed for !

[ShadowEO]

Made one of these in C# back in high school, made it so it opened every windows accessory on it's way to forking too! Didn't take long to bring the machine to it's knees.

[yeetyeeter]

Email this to a friend and label it "DO NOT CLICK" :]

[xyamazing]

3:43
It was at this moment he realized his VM was done
It had no hope to see the light off day
At least until it was forced to logout
Fly you saved the life of this vm

[QuickenFixen]

I built something like this when I was in college. It was a simple C program with the following code:
void main() { while(true) { malloc(sizeof(int)); fork(); } }
It quickly eats up all available memory and process handles on a Linux machine. I even ran it on a server the school owned (with the sever admin's permission) to see if it would work. To his surprise, it did, and the server had to be rebooted.

[bayzed]

%0 | %0 all it takes to obliterate Windows lol

[SreenikethanI]

music is peaceful and upbeat
windows is *ｓｃｒｅｅｃｈｉｎｇ ａｎｄ ｓｕｆｆｅｒｉｎｇ ｉｎ ｐａｉｎ*

[everythingtube]

1:36
Explorer:ight imma head out
1:57
Explorer:hey guys!

TaskMgr:what is this guy running? 100% CPU!
2:03
Taskbar icons:we’re finally here

[ampersand]

0% of complications
0% of difficulty
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Legit

[longplays]

I used to do it by running Calculator repeatedly. It creates a cool effect and it works the same way.

[songulozulku]

0:33 it says "easter egg" on the smallest text

[infrox]

I tried linux bomb with WSL. It bluescreened 5 seconds later.

[oof]

Flytech videos:DO NOT DO THIS ON YOUR COMPUTER
Also FlyTech videos:Tells everyone how to do it

[submachineguy]

Oh, thank you for giving me an idea of how to prank my techer

[Dukemz]

all you need to do is add a "del C:\bootmgr" code before this, and, well, u got urself a full blown trojan

[XaneMyers]

Something I've wondered, what's the "message file" for Command Prompt? Sometimes errors like the ones at 1:20 appear in place of the initial message/copyright message, so I wonder what file those "messages" are stored in. Also, what is message 0x8 supposed to normally say?