On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:59:13PM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote:
[snip]
>  - moving the offender to the end of the run queue (from christos)

This seems like a pretty good idea to me --- assuming I understand it
correctly, it should leave the system more or less operable in the event
of an accidental fork bomb, while still allowing an offending process
that's not busy-looping on a failing fork() to proceed in what should be
rather less than .5s.  Of course, both of these depend on how long it
takes for, oh, a few hundred offending processes to be thusly cycled.

--Jed

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