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SubjectRe: Xterm Hangs - Possible scheduler defect?
FromLee Revell <>
DateFri, 25 Feb 2005 18:24:46 -0500
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 16:02 -0500, Chad N. Tindel wrote:
> They're expensive and customers don't expect a single userspace thread to
> tie up the other 63 CPUs no matter how buggy it is. It is intuitively obvious
> that a buggy kernel can bring a system to its knees, but it is not intuitively
> obvious that a buggy userspace app can do the same thing. It is more of a
> supportability issue than anything, because you expect the other processors
> to function properly so you can get in and live-debug the application when it
> hits a bug that makes it CPU-bound. This is especially important if the box
> is, say, in a remote jungle of China or something where you don't have access
> to the console.

"Unix policy is to not stop root from doing stupid things because
that would also stop him from doing clever things." - Andi Kleen

"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" - Derek Smalls

Lee

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