Re: Making linux behave as a real multiuser multitask os.

2003-07-05 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 12:30:56AM +0300, Meir Michanie wrote: > I use UML at home, but to give UML in a public place like the > university? > > They would hack you from the inside. That is to much power. I am not sure I understand what you say. UML runs as normal user, not root. Any user can run

Re: Making linux behave as a real multiuser multitask os.

2003-07-04 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:52:28PM +0300, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: [snip] > > > How can I limit the percentage of CPU for a regular user? > > A better approach would be: how do I make the system divide CPU time equally > between users rather than between processes? One way is to use something l

Re: Making linux behave as a real multiuser multitask os.

2003-07-03 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 22:52, Meir Michanie wrote: > in the file /etc/security/limits.conf you can setup: > "cpu - max CPU time (MIN)" or "nproc - max number of processes" I do not > know if when a proccess reach this limit is killed or suspended. anyway cpu When the user maxes out his "max numbe

RE: Making linux behave as a real multiuser multitask os.

2003-07-01 Thread Kovriga, Gregory
You should probably check that your interrupts are enabled during disk access. -Original Message- From: Meir Michanie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:53 PM To: Linux Mailing-List Subject: Making linux behave as a real multiuser multitask os. Hi, here is my

Re: Making linux behave as a real multiuser multitask os.

2003-07-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:52:47PM +0300, Meir Michanie wrote: > Hi, here is my problem: > There are times that when I am ripping a movie, or doing something else like opening > mozilla ( as a regular user) > my computer freezes. Not even a BSOD. This does not appear to be the wrk of runaway CPU-

Making linux behave as a real multiuser multitask os.

2003-07-01 Thread Meir Michanie
Hi, here is my problem: There are times that when I am ripping a movie, or doing something else like opening mozilla ( as a regular user) my computer freezes. Not even a BSOD. even if run the script with nice 10. in the file /etc/security/limits.conf you can setup: "cpu - max CPU time (MIN)" or "n