[cap-talk] Price of resource accountability

[Matej Kosik]

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Hi,

Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> Norm and I have argued that resource accountability is important. But
> the deeper I get into this the more I find that resource accountability
> and application compatibility do not get along.
> 
> Which raises the question:
> 
>   Granted that ad-hoc recovery methods are ugly,

May I ask what do you mean by "ad-hoc recovery methods"?

Does it refer to the directly available option when we can
- - detect the problem when it happens
- - determine the perpetrator
- - perform manually some action, such as:
  - analyze and fix the code of a problematic subsystem
  - restart the system
?

Obviously, this may be acceptable in some cases as well as undesirable
in other cases where we might require availability of all the other
services except perhaps the one that attepmted to violate the policy
concerning memory limits and such.

>   is the anticipated pain
>   from resource denial of service attacks so large that complete
>   re-engineering of systems is justified?
> 
> 
> shap


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