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Re:Sandboxing JavaScript Code by curryhoward on Thursday April 20, 2023 @02:03AM (#35636896)
> Code has limited CPU available as well - if it tries to use too many cycles it quits with an error

That's a pretty strange failure mode. Usually you'd just throttle the sandboxed application (e.g., give it a CFS quota with a CPU cgroup) or give it a limited number of vCPUs.

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Re:Sandboxing JavaScript Code by circuit10 on Thursday April 20, 2023 @04:02AM (#35637495)
But then it could just keep running forever which isn’t something you’d want
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Re:Sandboxing JavaScript Code by curryhoward on Thursday April 20, 2023 @04:29AM (#35637616)
That's what (4) is for. Time out after some duration.
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