Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 12:12:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: <security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Need help with limits(1) Message-ID: <20010904121057.C47041-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <48396009431.20010904114449@internethelp.ru>
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On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Nickolay A.Kritsky wrote:
> Hi, all.
> I have a webserver running on FreeBSD 3.3. One of the perl scripts
> located there has some bug, that puts him in the infinite loop. This
> causes my webserver to stall, so that the only way to reboot is
> hardware reset. I want to restrict user httpd to use no more than
> 75% of CPU time. I read man limits(1) and man getrlimit(2) but they
> only talk about limiting cputime in seconds, but not percents. It
> means that I can restrict httpd process to run no more than 10
> seconds, but in this 10 seconds it will have access to all CPU power
> of the computer, making administrative work quite impossible. How
> can I add percent-based cputime restrictions for various users and
> login classes?
I don't know of a way to limit a user to a given percent of CPU,
but you might be able to limit the user's process priority, so that
even though the user would get 100% of the CPU when his process runs,
that process would be easily preempted by another process that has a
higher priority.
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net
I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs.
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