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From: mru@users.sourceforge.net (Måns Rullgård)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] O17int
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:39:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xn0e5lhz9.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200308200102.04155.kernel@kolivas.org

Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> writes:

> Food for the starving masses.
>
> This patch prevents any single task from being able to starve the
> runqueue that it's on. This minimises the impact a poorly behaved
> application or a malicious one has on the rest of the system. If an

I have to disagree.  Open a file of a few hundred lines in XEmacs and
do a regexp search for "^[> ]*-*\n\\([> ]*.*\n\\)*[> ]*foo".  The
system will more or less freeze.  It's a very nasty regexp, and it's
an error to try to use it, but it still shouldn't freeze the system.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@users.sf.net


  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-19 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-19 15:01 [PATCH] O17int Con Kolivas
2003-08-19 16:39 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2003-08-20  1:23   ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-20  9:19     ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-19 18:58 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-20  1:19   ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-20  8:53     ` Måns Rullgård
2003-08-20 16:27 ` Wiktor Wodecki
2003-08-20 16:42   ` Nick Piggin
2003-08-20 21:23   ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-21  5:26     ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-21  7:53       ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-21 11:46         ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-21 15:14           ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-21 22:18             ` Wes Janzen
2003-08-22  0:09               ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-22 21:17                 ` Wes Janzen
2003-08-22  0:42               ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-08-22  5:34               ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-22 20:48                 ` Wes Janzen
2003-08-21 23:59             ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-22  5:11               ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-21  5:30 ` Apurva Mehta
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-20  4:55 Voluspa
2003-08-20  8:00 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-08-20 11:21   ` Con Kolivas
2003-08-20 22:51 Voluspa

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