Re: ext3 IO latency measurements (was: Linux 2.6.29)

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Mar 27 2009 - 07:24:01 EST


> Is this the same Alan Cox who thought a couple of months ago that
> having an insanely low default maximum number epoll instances was a
> reasonable answer to a theoretical DoS risk, despite it breaking
> pretty much every reasonable user of the epoll interface?

In the short term yes - because security has to be a very high priority.
Lesser of two evils.

Alan
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