Re: can I bring Linux down by running "renice -20cpu_intensive_process"?

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 16:15 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> There's a good fix for this, don't give this guy root 
> any more ;-) 

Minor nit: s/root/realtime privileges/.  Since 2.6.12 these have been
decoupled.  No official distro release supports it OOTB yet (the
upcoming Ubuntu Dapper will).

Lee

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