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Re:Use This Kernel Parameter in Your Kiosk by ilyt on Saturday November 19, 2022 @05:01AM (#33668757)
That's generally pretty hard problem, to find a point where it triggers where app is unresponsible but not when say it is running something CPU intensive and just lags for few seconds
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Re:Use This Kernel Parameter in Your Kiosk by kqr on Saturday November 19, 2022 @06:00AM (#33669089)
Isn't that in its most general form exactly the halting problem?
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Re:Use This Kernel Parameter in Your Kiosk by foobiekr on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:09PM (#33672851)
The halting problem is for the general case. If you design the application to facilitate it you can demonstrate forward progress in a pretty robust way.

Is it perfect? No. But you can do much, much better than β€œis the kernel up.”

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