Hi I see some explanation about cgroups on Centos 6 here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-limit-resources-using-cgroups-on-centos-6 I will check about its implementation for Centos 6 and update my post. Thanks for giving a direction. Josh
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 4:27 PM, guy keren <guy.choo.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > how about using cgroups, putting each user's login shell in a cgroup that > cannot use more then X% of the whole CPUs. this will affect all processes > spawned under the user's shell. > > --guy > > > On 04/21/2017 03:07 PM, Josh Roden wrote: > >> Hi >> >> server setup: >> ------------------ >> Centos 6 >> 32GB RAM >> 16 Cpu's >> 70 students max >> >> I am using /etc/security/limits.conf to prevent the students from >> choking the whole >> server but sometimes one student will write a very bad program that >> somehow >> runs itself again and again - so fast that "killall" and "pkill -9 -u" >> can't stop/remove >> the user fast enough before the student's program is run again and >> again... >> >> Here is my definition in limits: >> >> @stud hard cpu 8 >> @stud hard nproc 256 >> @stud hard nofile 1024 >> @stud - maxlogins 6 >> >> I can't reduce cpu time below 8min because eclipse will be killed every >> hour or so. >> My problem seems to be that the student can run up to 256 processes that >> each >> uses 100% of a single CPU and we only have 16 CPU''s. >> >> Thanks for any suggestions. >> Josh >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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