From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 17 0: 3:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.sun.com (saturn.Sun.COM [192.9.25.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BDBA37B42C for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 00:03:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael.schuster@sun.com) Received: from sun-gy.Germany.Sun.COM ([129.157.128.5]) by saturn.sun.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA24802; Thu, 17 May 2001 00:03:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hacker.Germany.Sun.COM (hacker [129.157.133.195]) by sun-gy.Germany.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/ENSMAIL,v2.1p1) with ESMTP id JAA11531; Thu, 17 May 2001 09:03:35 +0200 (MEST) Received: from sun.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacker.Germany.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA24732; Thu, 17 May 2001 09:03:34 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <3B0377C6.F1D6457@sun.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 09:03:34 +0200 From: Michael Schuster X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: python fork call raised my load over 400! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG once again: PLEASE DON'T CROSS-POST!! Peter wrote: > > . . . .|> Still a user process probably shouldn't be able to hose the whole system > . . . .|> IMHO. > . . . .| > . . . .|sorry, that's the way Unix's fair-share scheduler works. > > Isn't that what user limits are for? > > man login.conf [I think -- Never could get it to work properly, but then again I'm the > only one using my system]. ha ... you caught me there :-) maybe so, I was just talking about the "generic" Unix case (and don't construe that as typical Solaris behaviour either!) If those limits exist (which I can't comment on right now), they obviously weren't configured. cheers Michael -- Michael Schuster / Michael.Schuster@sun.com Sun Microsystems GmbH / (+49 89) 46008-2974 | x62974 Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message