[RFC] CPU hard limits

[Paul Menage]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Balbir Singh<balbir at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
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> What about applications running as root, that can create their own
> groups? How about multiple instances of the same application started?
> Do applications need to know that creating a group will hurt
> guarantees provided to others?

Yes, of course. If you're handing out guarantees, but other users
can/will create cgroups with whatever parameters they like and won't
respect the guarantees that you've made, then those guarantees are
worthless. How do hard limits help in that situation?

Paul