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fork bomb

denial-of-service attack wherein a process continually replicates itself to deplete available system resources, slowing down or crashing the system due to resource starvation
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fork bomb

Summary

fork bomb ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (471 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • fork bomb's image is recorded as Fork bomb.svg[2].
  • fork bomb's subclass of is recorded as denial-of-service attack[3].
  • fork bomb's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01mr35[4].
  • fork bomb's facet of is recorded as operating system[5].
  • fork bomb's Quora topic ID is recorded as Fork-Bomb-1[6].
  • fork bomb's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 25706730[7].
  • fork bomb's Kaspersky Encyclopedia ID is recorded as fork-bomb[8].

Why It Matters

fork bomb ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (471 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

Related Entities

operating system

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). fork bomb. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/fork-bomb
MLA “fork bomb.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/fork-bomb.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_fork-bomb_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{fork bomb}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/fork-bomb}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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