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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:04:15 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Mark Mielke wrote:

> I missed this one. Does this mean that fork() bombs will have limited
> effect on root? :-)

Indeed. A user can easily run 100 while(1) {} loops, but to the
other users in the system it'll feel just like 1 loop...

> I definately want this, even on my home machine. I've always found it
> to be a sort of fatal flaw that per-user resource scheduling did not
> exist on the platforms of my choice.

It has existed since 2.2.14 or so ;)

I just didn't get around to forward-porting it to newer 2.4
kernels, until last weekend.

cheers,

Rik
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