From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Feb 6 6:49:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from coloradosurf.com (c769378-a.lakwod3.co.home.com [24.15.35.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4153937B65D for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 06:49:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mike@localhost) by coloradosurf.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA10147; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 07:46:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from mike) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 07:46:02 -0700 From: mike To: Adam LaBarge Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: limiting root process resources Message-ID: <20010206074602.A10117@coloradosurf.com> References: <003a01c09040$ce466340$020110ac@c769378a.lakwod3.co.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from phinger@best.com on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 06:28:59AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 06:28:59AM -0800, Adam LaBarge wrote: > I am not sure then why it would be taking your box down every now and > then. You could possible move your mail-server to a different machine, if > you have the resources. I think that mail servers and web servers should > be in two different boxes. I have hear ( if you are using send-mail ) that > it can do some wacky stuff sometimes that will eat the process of a > machine. Send mail can be put in a loop that will take down a > machine. Generally this only happens if some one decides to make it > happen....you could send your question to "question"... good luck. > -adam Actually, it only happened once, and directly because of a poorly written program (I have many other valuable skills :). My question for discussion was the idea of putting limits (say 80% of the CPU and xxM of mem) so that if I were stupid enough to do something like this again (to a remote machine). I would not have to increase my terminal emulators timeouts just to get on the box itself. Also, it would allow me to actually do something once I got on (instead of waiting for keystrokes to register). I'm interested in if people have done this and what positive/negative effects they might have experienced. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message