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- From: dennett@sunshine.Kodak.COM (Charlie Dennett)
- Subject: Can I limit the number of concurrent processes *per user*?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.171454.11255@kodak.kodak.com>
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- Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 17:14:54 GMT
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- I have a user who is writing a program that uses the fork system call.
- I'm not familiar myself with the ins and outs of this call, but those
- of you who are can probably guess what problems he is creating. He
- ends up with a gazillion copies of his program running at once. The
- only thing that limits him is the maximum number of total processes
- that the system as a whole can run.
-
- What I'd like to do (besides the obvious) is to limit the number of
- processes this particular user (or any user for that matter) can have
- at any one time. Can it be done? I know maxusers can limit the size of
- the systems process table, but is is possible to limit individual
- users?
-
- Thanks for any help.
-
- Charles Dennett | Rochester Distributed Computer Services
- Mail Stop 01816 | Customer Technical Support Services
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