On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, santosh kumar wrote: > assign high priority for X user to access a particular m/c. For example
What is an m/c? > have a high end m/c which is meant for some simulation purpose but it > will be usable by all users around the clock by which it hogs all the > memory so I want to assign a high priority for a single user X that If Linux doesn't support fair scheduling (yet), although I think someone is working on a patch for that. In the meantime, the proper thing to do is renice the memory-hogging process to give more priority to other tasks. Setting it to a niceness value of 16-18 should give you better performance without killing the process, although swap usage may be increased. Limiting memory is more difficult. You can set a limit with ulimit or PAM, but if the application exceeds the limits it will probably segfault...not what you want. This is really an application problem. You should have your programmers (or vendor) add support for memory limits in the application so that you can specify a maximum memory size. -- The DMCA is anti-consumer. The RIAA has no right to rewrite copyright laws to suit themselves. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list