getting fair share of CPU for processes

[Garrett Cooper]

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hi Bill and all,
>
>   
>>> So I am wondering it it is OK for me to limit the spamd user to how much
>>> CPU power it can get? I saw in the Handbook that it is possible to limit
>>> resources per user. Do you think it is a good thing to do? Will I be
>>>       
>> better
>>     
>>> off limiting spamd user or will it make the situation worse because SA
>>> will/may choke? Many thanks for any advice you can give me. I really
>>> appreciate it!
>>>       
>> The most typical method of handling this would be nice(1) (see the man
>> page for details).
>>     
>
> Thanks - I will do some reading.
>
>   
>> Also, I'm not clear as to what problem you're tyring to solve.  High load
>> on a busy server certainly isn't a problem, so where is the problem?
>>     
>
> The problem that sometimes, though for a very short period of time, the
> load goes above 14.
> I should have asked this first. Is this OK? I was probably unnecessarily
> concerned that the load gets too high. Of course, were it to happen for a
> prolonged time, I would take steps to improving hardware but as the load
> peaks are periodic and fairly short I thought I would make it easier for
> the machine to live :) Judging from your answer I can see I shouldn't worry
> all that much.
>
> Warm regards,
>
>   
    Please read man 5 login.conf .
-Garrett