Messages in this thread | | | From | Eduardo Cortés <> | Subject | Re: Re: limit cpu | Date | Thu, 16 Aug 2001 20:28:27 +0200 |
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If somebody want to develope it, a lot of thanks. I see scheduler could be better with this feature, opinions?
On Thursday 16 August 2001 19:53, Hua Zhong wrote: > Current Linux scheduler doesn't seem to be able to support this nicely. > You can set their priorities..but the values are not very intuitive. And > if you sleep, the result could become very inaccurate. > > A new scheduler (sth like weighted round robin) is a more natural solution. > You just assign weights to processes and they will be scheduled > accordingly. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eduardo Cortés" <the_beast@softhome.net> > To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:29 AM > Subject: Re: Re: limit cpu > > > On Thursday 16 August 2001 18:13, you wrote: > > > > > > i want to know if linux can limit the max cpu usage (not cpu > > > > > > time) per user, > > > > > > > > > > no. doing so would inherently slow down the scheduler. > > > > > > > > but *BSD has this feature, what's the problem in linux? > > > > > > I said that, thinking that it would require another test along > > > the scheduler's fast path. but if we only test when a process > > > has exhausted its quantum (or perhaps at counter-recalc), > > > the overhead would be minor. > > > > I think that it's a good feature for linux, but I don't know if is very > > complex to develope in linux. If I can limit the max cpu usage (in %) for > > an > > > user/group, the box is more solid. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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