A way to guarentee 2% of CPU not in use?

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

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On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:56:12 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> You can try adjust the various limits for your normal user account in
> /etc/security/limits.conf

Someone should note that it probably wasn't the fact that the CPU was
running at 100% that was the problem.  It was probably that a large number
of processes were in contention for CPU time.  This could be due to some
process spinning out of control and repeatedly forking new processes
(often referred to as a "fork bomb").  It could have been due to something
completely benign that would have worked itself out if you had just let
the box run for a couple of minutes (still annoying). 

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Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com>

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