From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 10 13:53:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zed.ludd.luth.se (zed.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA7B1537F for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:53:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pantzer@obie.ludd.luth.se) Received: from obie.ludd.luth.se (pantzer@obie.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.24]) by zed.ludd.luth.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA07790; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 22:51:16 +0200 Message-Id: <199904102051.WAA07790@zed.ludd.luth.se> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Amancio Hasty , Dmitry Valdov , Brian Feldman , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DoS from local users (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:37:06 PDT." <199904102037.NAA01262@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 22:51:14 +0200 From: Mattias Pantzare Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > : > :It should be possible to prevent a user from hogging a system if the system's > :naive scheduler is improved. > : > : Amancio > > No, it isn't. For a very simple reason: The resources users need to do > real work are very similar to the resources users need to hog the system. That has nothing to do with it. Not for cpu usage. If you have two users that are using all the CPU they can they ought to get 50% of the CPU each. Even if one of the users have 1 process and the other have 100 processes. Sun has a product for this, Solaris Resource Manager. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message