Re: ext3 IO latency measurements (was: Linux 2.6.29)

Alan Cox
2009-03-27T11:24:00Z

> Is this the same Alan Cox who thought a couple of months ago that
> having an insanely low default maximum number epoll instances was a
> reasonable answer to a theoretical DoS risk, despite it breaking
> pretty much every reasonable user of the epoll interface?

In the short term yes - because security has to be a very high priority.
Lesser of two evils.

Alan