How to Install and Uninstall forkbomb Package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Last updated: January 31,2025

1. Install "forkbomb" package

Please follow the instructions below to install forkbomb on openSuSE Tumbleweed


    
        
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                sudo zypper refresh
            
                    
    
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                sudo zypper install
            
                        
                forkbomb
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "forkbomb" package

Learn how to uninstall forkbomb on openSuSE Tumbleweed:


    
        
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                sudo zypper remove
            
                        
                forkbomb
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the forkbomb package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Information for package forkbomb:
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Repository : openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
Name : forkbomb
Version : 1.4-3.24
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 15.8 KiB
Installed : No
Status : not installed
Source package : forkbomb-1.4-3.24.src
Upstream URL : http://home.tiscali.cz:8080/~cz210552/forkbomb.html
Summary : Controlled fork() bomber for testing heavy system load
Description :
Classic Unix fork() bomber. Includes CPU hanger, memory allocator, memory
toucher and zombie dance team. You can test how will your computer behave under
heavy CPU, process, memory load. Linux 2.4 and FreeBSD 5.4 don't survive
classic forkbomb. Forkbomb is also useful as realloc() benchmark.