Jordan Erickson schrieb: > Ondrej Valousek wrote: > *snip* > >> Also, LTSP/Linux kernel developers should pay more attention to the >> resource control as that's the biggest gap I am seeing at the moment.... > > This is a very valid question that I've run up against.. is there no > software for Linux that throttles seemingly out-of-control processes? I > can see how it would be very difficult for it to be determined as an > actual runaway process and not something that's just CPU intensive for > the task it's handling...but per-user/global nice monitor perhaps? Hmm, > probably man nice would help. Actually, no..it doesn't. ;) But still, hmm.
I think cgroups can do what you want. cgroups exist in Linux since kernel 2.6.24, so Ubuntu Karmic has it. It can do memory, cpu and i/o limiting for groups of processes (i.e. one user can be made one group). I have never used it myself, though. More info: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_25#head-450b26e12955b8035a05cf07b3f31c501ee4bfab and http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/06/manage-your-performance-with-cgroups-and-projects.html Jakob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
