On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:

> I am managing a machine that was used by several people. One of the
> users often time run a program (written in fortran) that takes huge CPU
> and Memory that make the machine very un-responsive. So, the basic

The following additions to /etc/security/limits.conf will help:

        abusername      hard    priority        19
        abusername      hard    maxlogins       1
        abusername      hard    nproc           2

This will limit him to a single login with a maximum of two user processes
(lower and he might not be able to type commands at the console at all),
with an enforced priority of 19 for all processes.

You can also consider RSS and CPU time limits, but those are secondary.  
You may also want to consider putting appropriate ulimits into
/etc/profile. However, if /etc/shells allows a shell which doesn't source
/etc/profile, ulimit won't be as enforcable as PAM.

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