Messages in this thread |  | | From | Eduardo Cortés <> | | Subject | Re: Re: limit cpu | | Date | Thu, 16 Aug 2001 21:22:55 +0200 |
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On Thursday 16 August 2001 20:54, you wrote: > > If somebody want to develope it, a lot of thanks. I see scheduler could > > be better with this feature, opinions? > > one excellent reason noone has bothered with it is that hardware > is dirt cheap. it's extremely unusual these days to find a machine > where hostile users are given shell accounts. for non-hostile > situations (my lab, for instance), or for servers, the feature is > useless. at server level, this feature will be used for virtual hosts (a lot of ISP's). Could be used at home for security reason limitting any user 95-97%, and box will be more secure. A lot of people use applications (for XFree) that could crash the box for this reason. - 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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