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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Outrageous amount of multiple forks
Message-ID: <596@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 88 02:18:45 GMT
References: <22401@cornell.UUCP> <2210005@acf3.NYU.EDU> <382@ivucsb.UUCP> <5810@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <158@foster.avid.OZ>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >When I went to school, there was a quota system in place designed to prevent
 >just this sort of malefaction (it prevented disk hogging too) on BSD systems.
 >Regretably, I've no idea where the software came from.

It may have come from Melbourne; the BSD disc quota stuff was adopted
from the Melbourne quota mechanism.

 >In the commercial world (under SV and its derivatives), I achieve this effect
 >by careful tuning of the MAXPROC and MAXUP parameters. The former
 >establishes a ceiling on total concurrent processes; the latter does
 >the same on a per-user basis.

Those limits date back to V7, and are thus also in systems that started from
BSD.  (The parameters may have different names.)