Re: 2.4.8 Resource leaks + limits

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Fri, 17 Aug 2001 19:01:57 -0300 (BRST)


On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > i would think to put global limits in /proc or in a flat text /etc
> > and per user limits in something like /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow?
> > Is it against any standard to have extra fields in those files?
>
> Take a look at the pam modules, they already handle limit
> configuration per user, and I think all the major Linux (and
> also stuff like Solaris) distros run PAM based auth

Alan, would you accept the trivial version of per-user
CPU scheduling for 2.4 if there is a lot of demand ?

The code has been running in Conectiva's kernel RPM for
over a year now, is implemented entirely in the recalculate
part of the scheduler, leaves the scheduler fast path all
alone and only needs to be properly ported to newer 2.4
kernels now...

regards,

Rik

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