Re: Where is RLIMIT_RT_CPU?

Jean-Marc Valin
2006-07-14T23:20:45Z

> Can't you just make a prio 1 task which signals a prio 99 once say every
> second. If the priority 99 task doesn't get the signal after say 2
> seconds, it will look for a rt task running wild. At worst it will have to do
> an O(n) algorith when things have gone wrong, not when everything is
> working.

Well, that would work in sort of preventing a complete lockup, but the
watchdog wouldn't even know if the task eating lots of CPU is privileged
(OK) or unprivileged (not OK). Also, the original RLIMIT_RT_CPU feature
allowed you to really control how much CPU is available to unprivileged
users, not just prevent them from getting 100% CPU.

Jean-Marc