From: "Eduardo Cortés " <the_beast@softhome.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: limit cpu
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 21:22:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010816192250Z271622-760+2546@vger.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10108161853020.19342-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10108161853020.19342-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
On Thursday 16 August 2001 20:54, you wrote:
> > If somebody want to develope it, a lot of thanks. I see scheduler could
> > be better with this feature, opinions?
>
> one excellent reason noone has bothered with it is that hardware
> is dirt cheap. it's extremely unusual these days to find a machine
> where hostile users are given shell accounts. for non-hostile
> situations (my lab, for instance), or for servers, the feature is
> useless.
at server level, this feature will be used for virtual hosts (a lot of
ISP's). Could be used at home for security reason limitting any user 95-97%,
and box will be more secure. A lot of people use applications (for XFree)
that could crash the box for this reason.
next parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-16 19:23 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10108161853020.19342-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-08-16 19:22 ` Eduardo Cortés [this message]
2001-08-16 20:46 Shailabh Nagar
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2001-08-16 16:08 Eduardo Cortés
2001-08-16 16:13 ` Mark Hahn
2001-08-16 16:29 ` Eduardo Cortés
2001-08-16 17:53 ` Hua Zhong
2001-08-16 18:28 ` Eduardo Cortés
2001-08-17 17:34 ` Rik van Riel
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