Re: Renice long-running user processes

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:37:24AM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> > > 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?

Don't know, never used it. I just remember seeing it from browsing the pacakge list. I don't think its a huge package; install it and read the docs.

Doug.

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