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Subject: Re: How do i limit user processes (number / cpu usage) on slack7.0 kernel 2.2.17?
From: Devdas Bhagat (devdasWORLDGATEIN.NET)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 00:36:40 CDT

On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, fire-eyes spewed out the asciibets:
> Hm. Well there is no /etc/security/ on this box, and the only ulimits
> related item is a system call not an actual command. Heh, I'll get this
> somehow.
ulimit is a bash setting.

From the bash man page:

  ulimit [-SHacdfmstpnuv [limit]]
              Ulimit provides control over the resources avail­
              able to the shell and to processes started by it,
              on systems that allow such control. The value of
              limit can be a number in the unit specified for the
              resource, or the value unlimited.
<snip irrelevant options to this mail>
              -u the maximum number of processes available to
                     a single user
          If limit is given, it is the new value of the specified
          resource. Values are in 1024-byte incre­
              ments

Hope this helps.

Devdas Bhagat 

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