Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:22:33 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: Freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: getting fair share of CPU for processes Message-ID: <69cb4cbb7b86698b706a7443412b9284@szalbot.homedns.org> In-Reply-To: <20070802105401.06b4e31a.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20070802105401.06b4e31a.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Hi Bill and all, >> So I am wondering it it is OK for me to limit the spamd user to how much >> CPU power it can get? I saw in the Handbook that it is possible to limit >> resources per user. Do you think it is a good thing to do? Will I be > better >> off limiting spamd user or will it make the situation worse because SA >> will/may choke? Many thanks for any advice you can give me. I really >> appreciate it! > > The most typical method of handling this would be nice(1) (see the man > page for details). Thanks - I will do some reading. > Also, I'm not clear as to what problem you're tyring to solve. High load > on a busy server certainly isn't a problem, so where is the problem? The problem that sometimes, though for a very short period of time, the load goes above 14. I should have asked this first. Is this OK? I was probably unnecessarily concerned that the load gets too high. Of course, were it to happen for a prolonged time, I would take steps to improving hardware but as the load peaks are periodic and fairly short I thought I would make it easier for the machine to live :) Judging from your answer I can see I shouldn't worry all that much. Warm regards, -- Zbigniew Szalbot
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