Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 05:29:34 -0400 From: Rod Taylor <tr49986@rcc.on.ca> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DoS from local users (fwd) Message-ID: <37106B7D.50B2F49D@rcc.on.ca> References: <199904110354.XAA28481@kot.ne.mediaone.net>
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Mikhail Teterin wrote: > What about a new login-class capability specifying the maximum > percentage of CPU time a class of users can utilize? With standard > class having 90% (or 95%)? The machine would appear (to most of > the users) as if it had 10% slower CPU, with the remaining usable > by the root-class. This way, if the CPU consumption by system is > 30%, the most CPU time the standard users can get is 60%. > > Trusted users can be placed into a different class, of course. > > Plausible? > I like this, but the problem with that fork bomb program still exists. It was afterall system cpu that was doing all the work, not the users cpu. I can however see how this could be useful for even myself. People who want to run eggdrops can have 40% cpu max on my shell server ;) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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