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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@inprovide.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: can I bring Linux down by running "renice -20 cpu_intensive_process"?
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:11:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142547108.9395.17.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4419D575.4080203@tmr.com>

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 16:15 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> There's a good fix for this, don't give this guy root 
> any more ;-) 

Minor nit: s/root/realtime privileges/.  Since 2.6.12 these have been
decoupled.  No official distro release supports it OOTB yet (the
upcoming Ubuntu Dapper will).

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-16 22:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-10 13:36 can I bring Linux down by running "renice -20 cpu_intensive_process"? Tomasz Chmielewski
2006-03-10 14:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-10 14:52   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2006-03-10 22:01   ` Måns Rullgård
2006-03-10 22:06     ` Jeffrey Hundstad
2006-03-11 10:42       ` Måns Rullgård
2006-03-12  1:41     ` Luke-Jr
2006-03-12  3:46       ` Lee Revell
2006-03-12  3:50       ` Lee Revell
2006-03-12  3:44     ` Lee Revell
2006-03-12 12:00       ` Måns Rullgård
2006-03-16 21:15         ` Bill Davidsen
2006-03-16 22:11           ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-03-16 22:51           ` Måns Rullgård
2006-03-17  6:05             ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-17 22:22               ` Måns Rullgård
2006-03-18 12:38             ` Bill Davidsen

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