From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Jean-Marc Valin <jean-marc.valin@usherbrooke.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: Where is RLIMIT_RT_CPU?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:43:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152809039.8237.48.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1152663825.27958.5.camel@localhost>
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 10:23 +1000, Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I saw many references to RLIMIT_RT_CPU (e.g. in
> http://lwn.net/Articles/120797/ ) as a way of limiting the amount of CPU
> an unprivileged task can use at real-time priority. My understand was
> that the feature had been merged into 2.6.12 as part of Ingo's rt-limit
> patches. Unfortunately, I can't find any reference to that on my system
> (latest Ubuntu), so I'm wondering where it's gone. Has it been removed,
> renamed, ...? Considering that Ubuntu Dapper currently allows any user
> to make unlimited use of realtime scheduling, this feature would be
> really useful to prevent user apps from accidently crashing the system.
It was not merged.
This problem should be addressed by a userspace RT watchdog. Ubuntu
should not have shipped their system with unlimited non-root realtime
enabled and no watchdog.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-13 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-12 0:23 Where is RLIMIT_RT_CPU? Jean-Marc Valin
2006-07-13 16:43 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-07-14 9:39 ` Jean-Marc Valin
2006-07-14 21:31 ` Esben Nielsen
2006-07-14 23:20 ` Jean-Marc Valin
2006-07-15 13:58 ` Lee Revell
2006-07-15 14:19 ` Jean-Marc Valin
2006-07-15 14:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-15 15:04 ` Jean-Marc Valin
2006-07-15 15:44 ` Lee Revell
2006-07-16 0:23 ` Jean-Marc Valin
2006-07-16 10:44 ` Esben Nielsen
2006-07-16 10:14 ` Jean-Marc Valin
2006-07-16 12:20 ` Esben Nielsen
2006-07-17 11:53 ` Jean-Marc Valin
2006-07-17 13:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-07-17 14:32 ` Jean-Marc Valin
2006-07-17 15:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-07-17 16:18 ` Esben Nielsen
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