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    SubjectRe: Slow pthread_create() under high load
    Hi,

    On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 08:09:30AM -0700, sasha@mysql.com wrote:
    > >
    > Could somebody also elaborate on "the scheduler penalizes across forks" for
    > those who are not as familiar with the kernel internals/jargon? Does that mean
    > that a process that has called fork()/clone() automatically gets punished for
    > this great sin by getting its priority lowered?

    Correct. More specifically, the scheduling credits of the parent gets
    shared amongst the child processes.

    This is part of a kernel defence mechanism, and yes, it is important to
    do something like this. If you don't, then a user can create a fork-
    bomb task which continually forks off children, and if the children and
    parent all keep the same credits, then it becomes essentially
    impossible for any other process ever to get scheduled. It is a _nasty_
    denial-of-service attack, and that's why the kernel has to share the
    scheduling credits out when you fork.

    --Stephen

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