Re: limit cpu

[Wes Felter]

On 16 Aug 2001 03:21:58 +0200, Eduardo Cortés wrote:
> hi,
> i want to know if linux can limit the max cpu usage (not cpu time) per user, 
> like freebsd login classes. I see /etc/security/limits.conf and ulimit from 
> bash, but they limit the max cpu time, not de max cpu usage (%cpu). 

There are a couple of patches:

http://www.cs.umass.edu/~lass/software/qlinux/
http://fairsched.sourceforge.net/
http://www.surriel.com/patches/2.3/2.3.99-3-schedpatch5

Wes Felter
System Software Department
IBM Austin Research Lab
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