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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Rate limit for system calls to prevent denial of service attacks?
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>Why does this whole discussion remind me of Softway's Fair SHare Scheduler, 
>which was developed for a student environment? Basically, if the machine's 
>under load, it allows you to limit the CPU used by a given group to X%. It was 
>the subject of a couple of Usenix papers in the 80s as I recall. Sheesh, I'm 
>sure BDE's heard of it, being a part of the Sydney Unix Mafia.

I just live here :-).

Bruce

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