Re: 2.0, loggings, cpu quotas, 2.1 issues, etc.

B.J. Weschke (beej@inet-images.com)
Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:10:24 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> In linux.dev.kernel, article <Pine.LNX.3.93.960611014506.3875A-100000@brando>,
> Kevin M Bealer <kmb203@psu.edu> writes:
> >
> > As for the CPU quotas I like the idea of "no more than 20% of the CPU" at
> > once, but I don't know how implementable it would be. As for "only n hours
>
> It's implementable. The kernel needs a "struct userinfo" per logged-in user
> for that to work. The same structure could also hold total memory usage,
> which would enable us to finally block most of the more malicious
> fork/malloc bombs.

I would actively support and encourage these features.

B.J. Weschke, Technical Dir. <beej@inet-images.com> Internet Images Worldwide
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