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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
Cc: Mark Veltzer <mark@veltzer.org>, Peter Svensson <petersv@psv.nu>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Offtopic: (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:04:15 -0300 (BRT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0209251602170.22735-100000@imladris.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020925145727.B14820@mark.mielke.cc>

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Mark Mielke wrote:

> I missed this one. Does this mean that fork() bombs will have limited
> effect on root? :-)

Indeed. A user can easily run 100 while(1) {} loops, but to the
other users in the system it'll feel just like 1 loop...

> I definately want this, even on my home machine. I've always found it
> to be a sort of fatal flaw that per-user resource scheduling did not
> exist on the platforms of my choice.

It has existed since 2.2.14 or so ;)

I just didn't get around to forward-porting it to newer 2.4
kernels, until last weekend.

cheers,

Rik
-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-25 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-22 18:55 [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1 Peter Waechtler
2002-09-22 21:32 ` Larry McVoy
2002-09-23 10:05   ` Bill Davidsen
2002-09-23 11:55     ` Peter Waechtler
2002-09-23 19:14       ` Bill Davidsen
2002-09-29 23:26         ` Buddy Lumpkin
2002-09-30 14:54           ` Corey Minyard
2002-09-23 15:30     ` Larry McVoy
2002-09-23 19:44       ` Olivier Galibert
2002-09-23 19:48       ` Bill Davidsen
2002-09-23 20:32         ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-24  0:03           ` Andy Isaacson
2002-09-24  0:10             ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-24  0:14               ` Andy Isaacson
2002-09-24  5:53             ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-24 20:34             ` David Schwartz
2002-09-24  7:12           ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-24  7:30             ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-23 22:35         ` Mark Mielke
2002-09-23 19:59       ` Peter Waechtler
2002-09-23 20:36         ` Ingo Molnar
2002-09-23 21:08           ` Peter Wächtler
2002-09-23 22:44             ` Mark Mielke
2002-09-23 23:01               ` Bill Huey
2002-09-23 23:11                 ` Mark Mielke
2002-09-24  0:21                   ` Bill Huey
2002-09-24  3:20                     ` Mark Mielke
2002-09-23 23:57           ` Andy Isaacson
2002-09-24  6:32             ` 1:1 threading vs. scheduler activations (was: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1) Ingo Molnar
2002-09-25  3:08               ` Bill Huey
2002-09-24 18:10             ` [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1 Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-23 21:32       ` Bill Huey
2002-09-23 21:41       ` dean gaudet
2002-09-23 22:10         ` Bill Huey
2002-09-23 22:56         ` Mark Mielke
2002-09-24 10:02       ` Nikita Danilov
2002-09-23 21:22     ` Bill Huey
2002-09-23 21:03 ` Bill Huey
2002-09-24 12:03   ` Michael Sinz
2002-09-24 13:40     ` Peter Svensson
2002-09-24 14:20       ` Michael Sinz
2002-09-24 14:50         ` Offtopic: (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1) Peter Svensson
2002-09-24 15:19           ` Mark Veltzer
2002-09-24 17:29             ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-25 18:57               ` Mark Mielke
2002-09-25 19:04                 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2002-09-25 19:29                   ` Mark Veltzer
2002-09-25 19:23                     ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-24 16:31           ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-24 18:49             ` Michael Sinz
2002-09-24 19:12               ` PATCH: per user fair scheduler 2.4.19 (cleaned up, thanks hch) (was: Re: Offtopic: (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1)) Rik van Riel
2002-09-24 20:19 ` [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1 David Schwartz
2002-09-24 21:10   ` Chris Friesen
2002-09-24 21:22     ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-24 21:35       ` Roberto Peon
2002-09-24 21:35       ` Chris Friesen
2002-09-25 19:02     ` David Schwartz
2002-09-24 23:16   ` Peter Waechtler
2002-09-24 23:23     ` Rik van Riel
2002-09-25 19:05     ` David Schwartz

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