From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 15 10:43:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guardian.sftw.com (guardian.sftw.com [209.157.37.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AA9A37B4C5 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:43:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from yoda.sftw.com (yoda.sftw.com [209.157.37.211]) by guardian.sftw.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAFIhgq31392; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:43:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Received: from sftw.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yoda.sftw.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAFIhbx03878; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:43:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Message-ID: <3A12D959.432D9372@sftw.com> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:43:37 -0800 From: Nick Sayer Reply-To: nsayer@kfu.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Cc: janb@cs.utep.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how can I run utilities at idle time? References: <20001115183715.371bf7a6.steveo@eircom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >[...] > There were some comments a while back that rtprio and idprio had problems and > should not be used. Is this still the case (searching the archives is giving too many > irrelevant hits) ? idprio and rtprio can in some circumstances be used as a Denial of Service tool. Last I saw, their use was restricted to uid 0. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message