On Sat, Apr 10, 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Sun has a product for this, Solaris Resource Manager.
> 
>     ... and if one user is *supposed* to be running all those processes, then
>     what?  Oh, let me guess:  Now you are supposed to tune each user's account
>     independantly.  For a system with general user accounts, this is a burden
>     on the sysop.

   You don't need to tune user accounts, you need only put the
users in a separate login class (if that hasn't already been
done) and modify the resource limitation for that login
restriction.

>     If one can't control one's users, one has no business managing them.  The
>     last thing FreeBSD needs is some overly complex, sophisticated scheduler
>     designed to help bozo sysops stay on their feet.

   I agree with you very much here.  Public shell systems are a
bad idea.  In my opinion, you should trust someone before you
allow them to have an account on your system.

>                                       -Matt
>                                       Matthew Dillon 
>                                       <dil...@backplane.com>

-- 
Chris Costello                                <ch...@calldei.com>

Computers talk to each other worse than their designers do.


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