Hello perl gurus,

I am not into perl (as of now) but really admire the functionalities and flexibilites it provides.

I have a requirement which states as follows:
"No single process in Unix/Linux system can take more than 70% CPU at any given point of time"

I have proposed two solution, which are near to this requirement but not close enough:
1) Use of /etc/security/limits.conf file to set CPU time. For example:

@students hard cpu 2


 (This will limit CPU running time to 2 minutes to any member of students group)

2) Second way is to use "cpulimits" freeware program which can limit CPU usage based on either a PID or any program name. Example to this is:

./cpulimit -e perl -l 10


 This will limit "perl" to maximum 10% of CPU utilization.

Both of these methods are good in their own way but doesn't solve my purpose. I want
"ANY PROCESS AT ANY TIME SHOULD NOT USE MORE THAN 70% OF CPU".

Can anyone take a look into this and suggest me a possible solution with the help of perl?

Thanks,
VS

In reply to How to limit CPU utilization by ANY process with a perl script? by unix.95054

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