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From: stormy@Rain.MsState.EDU (Stormy Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Zombie processes eating up CPU time (was Re: Internet Service Provider)
Date: 25 May 1995 19:01:32 GMT
Organization: Stormy's Bar & Grill
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T. William Wells (bill@twwells.com) writes...
: frenzy looking for input data. The incessant looping drives the
: program to hog almost all the CPU, to the detriment of other
: interactive programs.
Like, duh. I know all this.
: Our solution: give every user a CPU quota.
*You* give every user a CPU quota. *I* am not in the business of
putting limits on my customers just because I am using defective
software.
: See the man page on
: csh/tcsh for the built-in "limit" command, and the man pages for
: getrlimit(2) and setrlimit(2).
Do you know how fatuous you sound to a guy who has been programming
and administering Unix systems for twelve years?
Please don't waste my time with the obvious. This is a problem that
needs to be *fixed*, by fixing the OS, not by piecemeal hacks on
applications, or bandaids added to the various shells.
Just because you find it obvious, doesn't mean that everyone else does.
Besides, the obvious is overlooked frequently.
Not everyone has been adminstrating un*x systems for twelve years and has
the knowledge of how to solve a problem that has been plaguing many users.
This person posted a general work-around for the problem, which is quite a
reasonable one (the solution, not the problem), and will definitely do the
job. If it's not a solution you can use, just ignore it, rather than making
a jerk of yourself in public by flaming him for trying (and succeeding) at
being helpful.
Be nice to each other...
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