Re: Forking shell bombs

From: Jan-Benedict Glaw (jbglaw@lug-owl.de)
Date: Sun Jul 13 2003 - 04:40:54 EST

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On Sun, 2003-07-13 10:10:22 +0100, Riley Williams <Riley@Williams.Name>
wrote in message <BKEGKPICNAKILKJKMHCAOELCENAA.Riley@Williams.Name>:
> Hi all.
>
> It sounds like what is required is some way of basically saying
> "Don't permit new processes to be created if CPU usage > 75%"
> (where the 75% is configurable but less than 100%).

That won't allow a load > 0.75 . Bad idea.

MfG, JBG

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