>>>>> On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:36:38 -0600, "Van Maren, Kevin" <[email protected]> said:
Van> I have not looked at this, but I don't believe it is the right
Van> way to solve the problem: users who +AF8-need+AF8- to use all
Van> the CPUs for computation would be punished just to work around
Van> a kernel implementation issue: that's like saying don't allow
Van> processes to allocate virtual memory because if the VM is
Van> over-committed by X amount the kernel deadlocks.
Van> It would be a bad hack to limit the system-call rate just to
Van> prevent livelock.
Certainly. I didn't suggest PRM as a way to _solve_ the livelock
problem, but since Mario asked for a method to cap CPU utilization, I
mentiond it.
--david