Linux Flash going to be limited to Chrome

[Christopher Browne]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Robert Brockway
<robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hmm I wonder what would happen if I got cgroups to limit the brower's
> resource consumption.  Apps are going to have to get better at living in an
> environment in which the OS says 'no' to resource requests more often.

In a somewhat different context, that's what the bufferbloat problem is about...

We get network problems because there's a huge buffer accommodating
large amounts of data requests.  You get the problem that a lot of
small network requests, stuck in between the huge ones, wind up timing
out because the interface is busy transferring 5 minutes worth of
pending requests.

Things improve in that area when the OS says "no" more quickly and more often.
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