>Is there a way to limit the number of processes associated with a UID
>on Solaris?

Set maxuprc in "/etc/system".

This usually controls them well enough to allow you to kill of the
processes.  One method that works for killing them of is to do a
lot of

        su user -c "exec sleep 1000" &

This fills that users limit (set by maxuprc), so that future fork()
commands will fail for that user.


Horst Scheuermann <sch@rzsun08.uni-trier.de>:

set maxuprc = ... in /etc/system a appropriate value and reboot

maxuprc will limit fork-bombs but Your system will slow down and
if You have accounting on Your /var will fill up.

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$ man -k rlimit
getrlimit       getrlimit (2)   - control maximum system resource consumption
setrlimit       getrlimit (2)   - control maximum system resource consumption

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/usr/proc/bin/*