On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, chris wakefield wrote: > On Thursday 26 April 2007 04:32, Michael wrote: > > But there shouldn't be any 'run away' processes in the first hand (what > > do you mean by run away?). Granted you're running some special stuff - > > but i'm curious what is it, then?
> Run away, as in I have to <CNTL><ALT><F1> to get a console to kill the > process to get my desktop to move again. I run htop to find a process > running at %100 cpu usage. [ . . . ] Busted software notwithstanding, I used to run a daemon called 'verynice' but it doesn't seem to be in debian. It regularly polled the process list and assigned good and bad 'karma' to processes depending on whether they were "hogging" the CPU. The algorithm was quite robust and worked very well to automatically renice run-away programs to keep my system responsive. You could even give it a list of misbehaving software that would accrue bad karma more quickly (and hence get reniced rapidly if they went nuts). Perhaps one of these would help mitigate your problem: % apt-cache search renice and - Auto Nice Daemon bsdutils - Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite reniced - renice running processes based on regular expressions schedutils - Linux scheduler utilities -- Brad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
