Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272323AbTHSREi (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:04:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272321AbTHSREi (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:04:38 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:25300 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272323AbTHSQjY (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:39:24 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@users.sourceforge.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] O17int Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:39:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200308200102.04155.kernel@kolivas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FccMHiDV1aTvkyljwK+RyGc2SZE= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 838 Lines: 16 Con Kolivas writes: > Food for the starving masses. > > This patch prevents any single task from being able to starve the > runqueue that it's on. This minimises the impact a poorly behaved > application or a malicious one has on the rest of the system. If an I have to disagree. Open a file of a few hundred lines in XEmacs and do a regexp search for "^[> ]*-*\n\\([> ]*.*\n\\)*[> ]*foo". The system will more or less freeze. It's a very nasty regexp, and it's an error to try to use it, but it still shouldn't freeze the system. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru@users.sf.net - 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/