From: "John Chambers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Stephen Kellett writes: > | In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jon Freeman > | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > | >I had one for a while but took it down after some abc from somewhere caused > | >abcm2ps to loop and I had my ISP phoning me up asking what abcm2ps was and > | >telling me that it had been using something like 90% of the processing power > | >for a good hour or more. I'm not prepared to take the chance on the shared > | >server again. > | > | Write a monitor process that monitors your abcm2ps processes. Any > | process that has been at a high CPU for more than X time, kill it. Or > | modify abcm2ps to include a monitor thread to do the same task (better > | as it'll know how long each tune processing has taken). > > A monitoring process or thread is radical overkill for this task. > We're talking about a C program. The standard C library handles the > job almost trivially (as the term is understood by C programmers ;-). > Here's a demo program that should run anywhere you have a minimally > POSIX-compliant C library:
<example snipped> Thanks. I won't try to understand it but I think I should be able to copy that code and compile abcm2ps with it included. As far as I can make out, this will be the ideal solution for me. I'll have a play with it over the weekend. Jon To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
