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Old 05-02-2006, 04:42 AM   #1
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Post too many process


Hii, I have noticed a bug in linux, when I am making a program in C that do
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while(true) fork();


and then run it on other host, the kernel get stuck after a while.
Is there a way to protect against it?
and sencond, after the user have disconncet, Can I kill all those process?
and third, How can I limit the cpu use of each user so no on will make the cpu too busy?
I need the answers as a "root" and also as a reguler user what to do.
Tanx
 
Old 05-02-2006, 06:31 AM   #2
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check out ulimit to see how to restrict users and groups from taking too many resourses.
 
Old 05-02-2006, 06:34 AM   #3
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Added pam_limits

Look in the bashref manual.
Ulimit can limit the several resources including the maximum number of processes that a single user can use.

If the host uses pam, there is a pam_limits module that enforces user limits.
http://www.seifried.org/lasg/users/
You set these limits by editing /etc/security/limits.conf

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