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Date:      Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:54:46 +1100 (EST)
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To:        Richard B Mahoney <rbm49@it.canterbury.ac.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Restricting a users CPU usage -- Possible?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011231252400.85150-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20001123144644.B42752@student.canterbury.ac.nz>

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On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Richard B. Mahoney wrote:

> Nonetheless, what I would like to do is to restrict the amount of CPU
> that emacs has access to. In this way, if it decides to become a rogue
> programme I can simply Ctl-Alt-F2 out of Blackbox, then log in as
> root, and have sufficient CPU available to quickly put a stop to it.

man 1 nice

> Any assistance would be appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>  Richard Mahoney
>    
> 
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        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
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