[vox-tech] Limiting user processes?

Ryan vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:42:14 -0700


On Thursday 27 June 2002 01:33 pm, Gabriel Rosa wrote:
> What you want is 'ulimit'.
>
> try running 'ulimit -a' or man ulimit?

I don't seem to have a manpage on it, but from what I can tell it would n=
eed=20
to be in the user's .profile

> On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Ryan wrote:
> > I want to limit some of the accounts on my system to only be able to =
run
> > X number of processes, and reserve a percentage of CPU cycles for roo=
t if
> > possible, does anyone know how to do this? I tried searching google, =
but
> > couldn't find anything, probaply cause I wasn't really sure what to
> > search for.

Oddly.... This didn't show up in my inbox.

--=20
NT (as in Windows NT) is short for "Needs Testing".