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System stress testing tool

 forkbomb is tool for stress testing. It can create many processes
using fork(), bring up some zombies, allocate memory using
realloc() and accesses this memory. It has different switches for
fine-tuning operation. While classic fork() bomb is good only for
fun and QA release testing, running multiple memory-eaters can be
useful for determining maximum memory which can be given to
servers (bind or squid) without taking machine down.  You can
test different operation systems with this tool and see how they
are handling the load. 

forkbomb history

v. 1.7
date: 2005/05/15 18:41:36;  author: novel;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -2
Update to 1.4.

PR:		81029
Submitted by:	Radim Kolar 

v. 1.6
date: 2004/10/12 13:23:46;  author: krion;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Drop maintainership to ports@FreeBSD.org

PR:		ports/71721
Submitted by:	Radim Kolar 

v. 1.5
date: 2004/02/25 19:24:31;  author: krion;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
- Update to version 1.3

PR:		ports/63359
Submitted by:	maintainer

v. 1.4
date: 2004/02/06 13:10:54;  author: trevor;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
Use PLIST_FILES (bento-tested, marcus-reviewed).

v. 1.3
date: 2004/01/31 14:49:23;  author: pav;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
- Update to 1.2

PR:		ports/62037
Submitted by:	Radim Kolar  (maintainer)

v. 1.2
date: 2004/01/29 13:13:31;  author: ale;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -0
Fix build on -stable.

Reported by:	bento via kris
Approved by:	nork (mentor/implicitly)

v. 1.1
date: 2004/01/22 17:57:44;  author: ale;  state: Exp;
Add forkbomb 1.0, system stress testing tool.

PR:		ports/61717
Submitted by:	Radim Kolar
Approved by:	nork (mentor/implicitly)
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