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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2001 09:03:34 +0200
From:      Michael Schuster <michael.schuster@sun.com>
To:        Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com>
Cc:        "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: python fork call raised my load over 400!
Message-ID:  <3B0377C6.F1D6457@sun.com>
References:  <SAK.2001.05.16.eaqptton@support10>

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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
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