[plug] Incoming Telnet Priority

[Christian]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 11:48:03PM +0800, Andrew Simmonds wrote:
> I occasionally have processes (mozilla hacking usually) that like to eat
> all my memory, swap and cpu power compleatly (malloc loop for example).
> Anyone know of a way to increase the priority of an incoming telnet
> connection so that I can log in and kill it?

You could possibly use resource limits on the hacking processes instead
(see bash(1) and search for ulimit).  I can't think of any way of
specifically guaranteeing resources for a process that is yet to be
created.

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