Fork Bombing Attack

[Anand Jahagirdar]

Hello All
             I have set per user process limit ( ulimit) for both
root and guest account as 8000 by using option ulimit -u 8000.this is
Hard limit.  still fork bombing attack killed the box and machine
needed reboot. will any body please tell me why this is so? i have
tried all this attack on machine with FC6 and Linux kernel 2.6.18.

Regards
Anand
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