Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!auspex!guy 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 Lines: 15 >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.)