* Lee Revell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Well, it is not really a DoS. The rescheduling of the process is
> > limited by the scheduler and the available CPU time (depending on
> > the number of runnable tasks in the system).
>
> Shouldn't an unprivileged process be rate limited somehow to avoid
> flooding the machine with interrupts? We restrict nonroot users from
> setting the RTC interrupt rate higher than 64Hz for a similar reason
> (granted, this limit dates back to the 486 days and should probably be
> increased to 1024 Hz).
No. An interrupt in this case is really just 'CPU time used up', and an
unprivileged process can take up as much CPU time as the scheduler
allows. So it's _not_ a DoS, and neither is any other unprivileged
infinit loop (or high-rate context-switching task) a DoS.
Ingo
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