Comment 9 for bug 391761

I just did the "fork bomb test" (entering :(){ :|:&};: in a terminal) on my Oneiric installation, and it still crashes the system.
This should not happen if I get this report right, so perhaps the report should be re-opened?

A workaround for me is adding lines like

* hard nproc 4096

to /etc/security/limits.conf (as suggested above by Steve Langasek).