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Re: Limit a process's CPU usage?



On Fri Mar 28, 2003 at 02:15:03PM +0100, the boisterous
Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de>
wrote to me:
> > A quick look gave me: limits(5)
> > In Debian it seems to be /etc/security/limits.conf and not /etc/limits
> > as described in limits(5)
> 
> As I understand it, this will limit my whole CPU time (it is set on login). 
> This is rather bad, as I use GIMP and pdflatex from time to time, and these 
> should run at full speed.

Well, then create an extra user account for seti@home client ;-)

so long
Thomas

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