Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:41:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:41:13 -0400 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.133]:16638 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:41:13 -0400 Subject: To: Thunder from the hill Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Giuliano Pochini , , Alan Cox X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.7 March 21, 2001 Message-ID: From: "Jim Sibley" Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:41:18 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D03NM801/03/M/IBM(Release 5.0.10 |March 22, 2002) at 09/12/2002 03:45:06 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1021 Lines: 27 >Only if you assume that a bunch of users tries very hard to use up all the resources... Not true. A sudden surge in legitmate traffic can stretch the limits unwittingly or a new legitmate appliation can stretch the limits in an unexpected way. If there is such a surge, who has priority? I have cause similar random behaviour 1) if I have a lot users doing little things, 2) a few big users doing big things, 3) a mix of users doing various things or 4) one users doing bad things. And in any of the cases, I have no say in whose going to get killed. And I don't have to try very hard and I don't have to be the super user. Regards, Jim Linux S/390-zSeries Support, SEEL, IBM Silicon Valley Labs t/l 543-4021, 408-463-4021, jlsibley@us.ibm.com *** Grace Happens *** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/