Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [announce] [patch] limiting IRQ load, irq-rewrite-2.4.11-B5 | Date | Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:00:36 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Of course we agree that such a "polling router/firewall" behaviour must > not be the default but it must be enabled on demand by the admin via > sysctl or whatever else userspace API. And I don't see any problem with > that.
No I don't agree. "Stop random end users crashing my machine at will" is not a magic sysctl option - its a default.
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