Take a look at the preap utility I believe this feature only exists on 2.6+ 
kernels 

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On Jan 26, 2012, at 12:55 PM, David Blank-Edelman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi-
>  We've got a situation where periodically some processes will go rogue on a 
> Linux machine, probably after they lose their controlling terminal (i.e. 
> someone logs off without quitting the program). We started to hack up 
> something that attempts to kill these processes under the "right" 
> circumstances (person is logged off the console, is not logged in remotely, 
> isn't running it in a screen session, it is taking up a major part of the 
> CPU, etc.) but it occurs to me that someone must have written this already. 
> It seems like the sort of thing that shared hosting providers must need to 
> having running all the time.
> 
> Does anyone have a tool they like that they can recommend for this purpose? 
> Thanks!
> 
>       -- dNb
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