Re: [patch] SCHED_SOFTRR linux scheduler policy ...

Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:50:33 +0200


Hi!

> I finally found a couple of hours for this and I also found a machine were
> I can run 2.5, since luck abandoned myself about this. The small page
> describe the obvious and contain the trivial patch and the latecy test app :
>
> http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/softrr.html

What happens if evil user forks 60 processes, marks them all
SCHED_SOFTRR, and tries to starve everyone else?
Pavel

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