The overall desired effect is to limit a user's use of certain
resources -- CPU, memory, disk, etc. It's not easy to "jail" a user in
this manner. Meaning, we can't say that, if there are 10 users logged
on, give these users about 10% of CPU resources. A user can easily
bring down the system by doing something CPU intensive -- e.g. using
OO.org to edit a complex document or visiting a Flash-heavy site.
  

cant we use limits.conf to restict users "access" to the server's resources?


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