linux-kernel - Re: DOS by unprivileged user

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Date:   Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:37:24 +0200
From:   Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:     Ferry Toth <ftoth@...fort.nl>
Cc:     lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: DOS by unprivileged user

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