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I do nothing more than trade stout rope for good behavior. I anchor one end to a boulder, the other to a task's neck. The mechanism is agnostic. The task determines whether it gets hung or not, and the user determines how long the rope is.

-- Mike Galbraith. Who says scheduler patches are hard to understand?


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Posted Mar 23, 2006 10:40 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Hence `this CPU-hogging process has been throttled'.

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