Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:46:14 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow Message-ID: <20020716104613.GA8110@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <002401c22cae$42c3e020$01004280@irridium> References: <002401c22cae$42c3e020$01004280@irridium>
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:50:44PM +0400, Oleg Borodkin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running 3 x Pentium Xeon system. But when I launch this simple program:
>
> while(1) { i++; }
>
> it almost overloads the system. 3 running copies are freezing the system at
> all. Does FreeBSD can be freezed so easy? Or it's a misconfiguration?
I think ANY OS running something like that would struggle after a few
minutes...
FreeBSD lets you configure process limits, memory usage limits, etc,
to help protect against runaway processes. The config file is
/etc/login.conf. Look at man login.conf for details and cross-
references.
HTH
Dan
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