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[coight]

We are trialing a new system inhouse currently and I was personally wondering if it would be possible to run a cron, or command and if a certain process is using X% of the processor it will automatically terminate the process.

Is this possible?

[ReliableServers]

Yeah there are few scripts out there to do just that I believe.

[coight]

Originally posted by Dilhole
Yeah there are few scripts out there to do just that I believe.

For example

[cubed]

eheh

[toro]

Hey,
Write a script to run 'ps aux', read the output line by line, at each line take the CPU usage, convert the string to a digit (float), compare it to a set maximum, if the number is larger, kill the pid from that line. It's fairly simple to do (even in C).

[twrs]

I'm also interested in any such script. Anyone knows how to get it?

[dhlsg]

I know this isn't what you are after but it does explain some things

http://www.r-fx.net/lprl.php

Steve