The Experiment

This project uses Docker to create containers designed to crash from the implementation of a fork bomb.
Python scripting handles creation of images and containers for the respective language and measures the time it takes for a fork bomb script to crash the container.

Requirements

• python3
• Docker

Usage

1. Modify the run.py script at project root to point to your own python3 interpreter.
2. From project root: ./run.py <language> <mem_limit> <cpu_limit>
   • Only the <language> argument is required.
   • Optional: <mem_limit>
     • Examples: 100m (100 MB) | 2g (2 GB)
   • Optional: <cpu_limit>
     • Examples: 1 (1 CPU Core) | 3 (3 CPU Cores)

Helpful Commands

Docker

Run a container in an interactive bash shell

This is handy for troubleshooting errors with execution of the copied code

docker run -it --entrypoint="bash" <image_name>

Build docker image from Dockerfile

docker build -t <image_name> -f Dockerfile .

Examine stdout of a container

This is handy for confirming that the docker container failed as a result of the code itself and not something else such as a failure to execute.
Uncomment the remove_container(container_id) line in run.py to keep the container alive after testing so that the container's id can be used to check the logs.

docker logs <container_id>