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Date:      Sat, 10 Apr 1999 22:51:14 +0200
From:      Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Dmitry Valdov <dv@dv.ru>, Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DoS from local users (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <199904102051.WAA07790@zed.ludd.luth.se>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:37:06 PDT." <199904102037.NAA01262@apollo.backplane.com> 

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> :
> :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.




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