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The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

This is brilliant.

    • melroy
      12•4 days ago

      Looks fine to me. Only 1 CPU core I think was 100%.

      10+0 records in
10+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB, 10 GiB) copied, 28,0695 s, 383 MB/s
      • melroy
        10•4 days ago

        ow… now the idea is to unzip it right?

        nice idea:

        if (ipIsBlackListed() || isMalicious()) {
    header("Content-Encoding: deflate, gzip");
    header("Content-Length: "+ filesize(ZIP_BOMB_FILE_10G)); // 10 MB
    readfile(ZIP_BOMB_FILE_10G);
    exit;
}