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

[Senectus .]

On 14/06/06, Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:56:12 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
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> > You can try adjust the various limits for your normal user account in
> > /etc/security/limits.conf
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> 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).

As likely as this might be, 20 mins of almost no response is too long
to put up with :-P

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