How do I limit I/O usage for a user/process? A user broke my system

krad kraduk at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 14:01:54 UTC 2016


maybe, but the simple answers are always worth considering.

On 19 August 2016 at 14:59, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler at tysdomain.com> wrote:

>
> On 8/19/2016 9:54 AM, krad wrote:
>
>> Does the same issue happen with vim no nano? If not maybe just remove
>> pico.
>>
>> That's a slippery slope. Just use login classes to limit usage.
>
> On 19 August 2016 at 11:44, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:16:57 +0200
>>> "Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2016-08-19 10:40:58, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>>>> (...)
>>>>
>>>>>     Very likely the problem was due to memory use and you are tight
>>>>> on memory for your normal load.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Which, as I might add, *should* be the normal usage pattern of a box.
>>>>
>>>
>>>         You want all the memory in use I agree, but you don't want it so
>>> tight that there is constant memory pressure so there should be a goodly
>>> amount inactive, in cache and buffers. If there is swap activity then you
>>> are too tight for the load.
>>>
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