Hi,

I need a way to set a hard limit on processor usage on the server. A
user had spawned three processes, one on each processor (the fourth one
got fried a long time ago), which kept them 90% busy. The result was
that the server became to slow to even reply to ping packets, not to
mention loss of DNS service.

ulimit, and /etc/security/limits.conf only allow you to set the amount
of time spent on the CPU. I want to say something like "only x% on only
y processors" if possible. Is there a way to do that?

Will simply limiting processor usage help solve the problem we faced?

Sameer.
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   MTech Student,
   Reconfigurable Computing Lab,
   KReSIT, IIT-Bombay.

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