Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 May 2007 16:17:22 -0700 | From | Bill Irwin <> | Subject | Re: per-thread rusage |
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At some point in the past, I wrote: >> I just so happen to think we should implement a variety of CPU resource >> limits beyond what we now do, so this, too, interests me.
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:04:58AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Agreed - and make them all 64bit while doing the cleanup. One thing > several Unixen have we don't for 32bi boxes is a proper set of 64bit > resource handling for memory/file etc. > We could also start using the CPU facilities to enforce some of > the really interesting real time process ones (like main memory > bandwidth) that at the moment we have no control over and can lead to > very unfair behaviour.
That would be very useful, though I'm unsure of how broad a variety of architectures implement performance counters useful for such. Simple caps on %cpu would be a good start in my view.
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