On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:06:43 BST, Xavier Bestel said:
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> Le mardi 13 mars 2007 =E0 05:49 +1100, Con Kolivas a =E9crit :
> > Again I think your test is not a valid testcase. Why use two threads =
for your=20
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> > encoding with one cpu? Is that what other dedicated desktop OSs would=
 do?
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> One thought occured to me (shit happens, sometimes): as your scheduler
> is =22strictly fair=22, won't that enable trivial DoS by just letting a=
n
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> user fork a multitude of CPU-intensive processes ?

Fork bombs are the reason that 'ulimit -u' exists. I don't see this sched=
uler
as being significantly more DoS'able via that route than previous schedul=
ers.