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.
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