Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:23:16 +0000 From: Magnus Ahriman <magnus.ahriman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How do I limit I/O usage for a user/process? A user broke my system Message-ID: <CAM4nNt8dOojYNA6FK6_zj7vN92e6ML2A0QbsXH3fz8rP%2BCbVTg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, Today I had a user who decided to open a very large text file in pico. The result was a complete denial of service of the system and everything stalled/was working veeeeery slowly. Even after the user had killed the process it took quite some while for the system to recover and I seemed to notice improvements of certain services after having restarted them. What are my options to limit resource usage for users? I tried renicing the user's process but to no help and the problem was most certainly with disk I/O. I don't want a normal user being able to lock up my entire system just by viewing text files. So any ideas? Best regards, Magnushelp
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