Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:11:15 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Shane Hale <merlyn@dreaming.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limiting Processes Message-ID: <20030428211115.GU22259@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <02b501c30dc9$60a305b0$0400a8c0@251AGerrardStE.dreamlabs.com> References: <02b501c30dc9$60a305b0$0400a8c0@251AGerrardStE.dreamlabs.com>
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In the last episode (Apr 28), Shane Hale said: > I'm trying to limit the amount of time a process will run in > userland. Some of the users on my the network decide to keep BitchX > and IRC processes running for eons and I'm wondering if there is a > way to stop this. You can set per-process cpu limits in /etc/login.conf (the cputime capability). Although you may be misreading the CPU column. It's in minutes:seconds.fractions, so for example > beastah 29501 0.0 1.2 3324 1460 p3 Ss+ 11Apr03 2:37.11 BitchX -n BeAsTaH irc.gamesnet.net (BitchX-1.0c19) This user started a session on the 11th, and it has consumed 2 minutes of CPU time. Not all that much for 17 days of real time. If you have a CPU load issue it's probably someplace else. If you just want to kill long-running processes on principle, the idled utility in ports/sysutils/idled might have a way to do that. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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