Hello, Let's remember a motto of J. Pournelle of the late Byte : one User, more than one CPU (let people hog their workstation as much as they want ...)
And another good resolution : no shell accounts for normal users on sensitive servers (no lusers which could want to DoS the servers allowed) Every base covered ? Cheers TfH Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > :It should be possible to prevent a user from hogging a system if the system's > :naive scheduler is improved. > : > : Amancio > > No, it isn't. For a very simple reason: The resources users need to do > real work are very similar to the resources users need to hog the system. > > Saying that the system should somehow be able to magically make the > distinction between the two is a pipedream. It takes a human to make > the distinction. > > Short of restricting the resources you give to users to the point where > they can't even start a mail or news client, there is just no way to > prevent said users from loading down the machine if they choose to. > > -Matt > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message