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Re: How to limit resources ?
by broquaint (Abbot) on Oct 24, 2001 at 14:17 UTC
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Well if you're fortunate enough to be running this on a Unix system then you can re-schedule the priority of a process by being 'nice' to the process. If you have permissions you can use the renice command (man renice(8)) which should lower it's CPU usage significantly (assuming you give it a positive value). This isn't part of perl's functionality, so you'll probably have to run the command through system() or something of that ilk, as I don't think there's a CPAN module for it (now would be a good time to write one though ;o)
HTH
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There is also the perl function
setpriority to renice a process. From the docs,
it might cause a fatal error on a system that doesn't support setpriority. Maybe WinNT or siblings support it? I can't check right now.
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Re: How to limit resources ?
by jeroenes (Priest) on Oct 24, 2001 at 14:03 UTC
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Process resource control is something completely done by the operating system. So your mileage may vary.
You can program yourself a form of control by monitoring
the system and kill your childs when they got too greedy.
There are several modules on CPAN for process monitoring/control. Do a CPAN search on 'proces' than 'proc' to find one that fits your OS.
Jeroen
"We are not alone"(FZ)
Update: Did that search on CPAN and found:
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Re: How to limit resources ?
by Anarion (Hermit) on Oct 24, 2001 at 15:35 UTC
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In Linux/Unix its easy to limit the resources of one user, you
have to modify 2 files to do it, or just one if you already include limits.conf in pam.
There two files are:
In /etc/pam.d/login or ssh, etc
put this line
session required pam_limits.so
Then edit:
/etc/security/limits.conf
#<domain> <type> <item> <value>
#
#Where:
#<domain> can be:
# - an user name
# - a group name, with @group syntax
# - the wildcard *, for default entry
#
#<type> can have the two values:
# - "soft" for enforcing the soft limits
# - "hard" for enforcing hard limits
#
#<item> can be one of the following:
# - core - limits the core file size (KB)
# - data - max data size (KB)
# - fsize - maximum filesize (KB)
# - memlock - max locked-in-memory address space (KB)
# - nofile - max number of open files
# - rss - max resident set size (KB)
# - stack - max stack size (KB)
# - cpu - max CPU time (MIN)
# - nproc - max number of processes
# - as - address space limit
# - maxlogins - max number of logins for this user
# - priority - the priority to run user process with
#
#<domain> <type> <item> <value>
$anarion=\$anarion;
s==q^QBY_^=,$_^=$[x7,print
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Re: How to limit resources ?
by MZSanford (Curate) on Oct 24, 2001 at 14:01 UTC
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In Unix, you can limit per-process resources for a given user, but the only way i could think of right off the top of my head in perl would be to use the times() function, and have the child die if the number is greater than it's limit. But, this is really not the best way, and it does not cover memory usage. I will be keeping an eye on this thread to see if anyone else knows.
i had a memory leak once, and it ruined my favorite shirt. | [reply]
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Re: How to limit resources ?
by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Oct 24, 2001 at 14:28 UTC
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On *nix you can parse the output of ps, or somebody may have an xs interface to a 'top' lib. Can you do something with this?
$ perl -e 'print `ps -l p $$`,$/'
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME C
+MD
000 S 501 5150 561 0 69 0 - 614 pipe_w pts/2 0:00 p
+erl -e pri
The ps command has a terrific variety of options for the information and format returned. You can throttle CPU by sleeping, memory footprint will be trickier.
After Compline,
Zaxo | [reply]
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Re: How to limit resources ?
by echo (Pilgrim) on Oct 24, 2001 at 15:05 UTC
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GTop is a Perl interface to LibGTop, a library which fetches information on system resource utilization by running processes. | [reply] |
Re: How to limit resources ?
by claree0 (Hermit) on Oct 24, 2001 at 14:12 UTC
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I'm not sure how to limit memory usage, but it may be worth investigating whether the unix 'nice' command will carry over to the children
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Re: How to limit resources ?
by Fletch (Bishop) on Oct 24, 2001 at 19:23 UTC
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Check out the BSD::Resource module. It provides
a perl interface to the getrlimit() family of
system calls for systems that implement them (don't let
the name fool you; according to the Linux manpages it's
required for SVr4 as well).
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