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Subject: Re: DOS by unprivileged user
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Ferry Toth <ftoth@telfort.nl>
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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