Re: DOS by unprivileged user

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Fri Apr 20 2018 - 08:37:34 EST


On Fri, 2018-04-20 at 10:39 +0200, Ferry Toth wrote:
>
> Nevertheless I feel one process should not be allowed to harm other
> processes by denying them resources. Even if when btrfs makes it easy
> abuse I think the scheduler should have throttled gitk.

Memory management is not in it's job description.

-Mike