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Re:Docker can forkbomb the host system: `docker run busybox ... by gepoch on Friday January 22, 2016 @12:51PM (#10954353)
If you didn't set lxc CPU quotas then this isn't very suprising!

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16084741/how-do-i-set-res...

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Re:Docker can forkbomb the host system: `docker run busybox ... by djb_hackernews on Monday January 25, 2016 @11:48AM (#10968200)
That information is quite out of date as docker doesn't use lxc as it's execution driver by default. This explains how to control cgroups with docker https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/
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