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Controlling other process' resources

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Started by spraff December 08, 2008 05:18 AM

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spraff

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December 08, 2008 05:18 AM

Hi there. I'm spawning a child process (under Linux) and I'd like to restrict it to X meg of RAM and Y% of CPU. Is this possible? Thanks.

spraff

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December 10, 2008 01:02 PM

Bump.

Kylotan

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December 11, 2008 05:37 AM

Moving to the Unix forum...

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December 11, 2008 07:28 AM

For limiting RAM, see setrlimit().
I don't know if it's possible to set a CPU limit as a percentage, but you can set a process priority using nice() or setpriority().