Re: Renice long-running user processes

> > I run a shared system where I'd like to automatically lower the =A0
> > priority of user processes that consume more than a specified about =A0
> > of CPU time. =A0I could hack something up with Perl, ps, and nice, but =
=A0
> > before I do, does anyone know of a ready-made utility to do this job?
>
> Would reniced be of any help?

Mmmmm! Maybe just what the doctor ordered as setiathome stuff will renice itself to a "lower" value and start bogging things down. If this catches it saves me the trouble. Is there any timing options here, i.e. how often does the daemon check and/or how long to give the runaway before renicing it?

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