Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:21:13 -0400 |
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:06:43 BST, Xavier Bestel said: > Le mardi 13 mars 2007 à 05:49 +1100, Con Kolivas a écrit : > > Again I think your test is not a valid testcase. Why use two threads for your > > encoding with one cpu? Is that what other dedicated desktop OSs would do? > > One thought occured to me (shit happens, sometimes): as your scheduler > is "strictly fair", won't that enable trivial DoS by just letting an > user fork a multitude of CPU-intensive processes ?
Fork bombs are the reason that 'ulimit -u' exists. I don't see this scheduler as being significantly more DoS'able via that route than previous schedulers. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |