Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 10:47:41 +0000 From: Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limit resources for a given program Message-ID: <2014529083ae48e21732fa60a4062356@roundcube.fjl.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <wu78tcpgmke.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <wu78tcpgmke.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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On 2018-01-23 05:40, Olivier wrote: > Is there a way, in FreeBSD, to limit the clocktime for a given command? > > I use LibreOffice to automatically convert many types of documents to > PDF. When it is an HTML document with external links, it will run > indefinitely, trying to access the external resources. It will not use > much CPU but mostly sits idled, so limits(8) -t is not the solution, > nor > is rctl(8) that needs a process ID (but I only have the command name) > or > a user ID (but I don't want to limit a user, just that program). I'm a bit confused about what your problem is? What exactly do you mean by "clocktime" - do you mean wall time (i.e. time elapsed)? You say it's not using a lot of resource, so what's the problem? Or do you just want to kill it when it gets stuck?
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