:Hi! : :Is it reasonable to administratively limit users' ability to call fork :too other ? Users can take away too much CPU time even if you have :limited them by login.conf 'cputime' limit - just forking lightweight :processes too often. : :If it seems good thing to do, i'll try to code it and submit patches for :-current. : :I think this limit must go to struct uidinfo, am i right ? :Also i need to store per-user counters somewhere, can i place it there? : :-- :Gaspar Chilingarov
Well, we did make fork inherit the parent process's current priority, so if a parent process forks() a lot it and its children should get less cpu. Beyond that the system can't really tell whether the cpu use is something the sysad wants (i.e. sa y it's a web server) or something the sysad doesn't want (an abusive user). -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message