Re: Offtopic: (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native POSIX Thread Library 0.1)

Mark Mielke
2002-09-25T18:54:56Z

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:29:30PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> I just posted a patch for this and will upload the patch to
> my home page:
> Subject: [PATCH] per user scheduling for 2.4.19
> My patch also allows you to switch the per user scheduling
> on/off with /proc/sys/kernel/fairsched and has been tested
> on both UP and SMP.

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

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.

mark

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