Process Management

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 15.08.2004 schrieb Sven Dzepina um 11:25:

> I have many users working on a web server.
> They executes  among other things many scripts like php, perl or
python...
> 
> Some of them are strange, because they program a endless loop so they
> use more than 99 % of CPU -> That's pretty bad for the server ;-)

Common problem with those kind of "coders".

> For that time is the server unusable. I have always to login on Server
> via ssh and kill it.
> 
> You understand that I am not able to watch my servers 24 h a day.
> 
> Has Fedora Core 1 or Core 2 a function to manage that ? If a users of
> group is executing longer than 10 seconds, kill it with kill -9 or
> something like that.

One basic solution is to use settings in /etc/security/limits.conf, to
control and limit the usage of system resources.

Alexander


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