From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 2 16:22:47 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2C416A418 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:22:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from szalbot.homedns.org (lists.lc-words.com [83.19.156.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB6CB13C457 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:22:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org) Received: from www (helo=www) by szalbot.homedns.org with local ; Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:22:33 +0200 To: Bill Moran X-PHP-Script: https://poczta.szalbot.homedns.org/index.php for 192.168.11.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 18:22:33 +0200 From: Zbigniew Szalbot In-Reply-To: <20070802105401.06b4e31a.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20070802105401.06b4e31a.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Message-ID: <69cb4cbb7b86698b706a7443412b9284@szalbot.homedns.org> X-Sender: zbigniew@szalbot.homedns.org User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Freebsd questions Subject: Re: getting fair share of CPU for processes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:22:47 -0000 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