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Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:29:13 +0200 (CEST)
From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net>
To: Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk>
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On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Rus Foster wrote:

> Hi All,
> I'm trying to work out a good way of stopping one process flooding the
> I/O. Basically I have a multuple user machine and would like to try to
> stop one person taking it down...

Hi!

You will basically use login.conf to put user in user classes (set via
chpass $USER) and then restrict the number of simultaneous processes as
the simple way to do it. You can also limit the total CPU time a user is
allowed to handle.

But then you'd also have to look for processes that are allowed to run
as root...

HTH
Olaf


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