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killing processes

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
From: Tom Parsons <cis@tegan.com>
Subject: Re: Runaway Processes
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 18:09:05 GMT
Message-ID: <20001013130905.23998@tegan.com> 
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John DuBois enscribed:
| In article <20001012121617.04686@tegan.com>,
| Tom Parsons  <cis@tegan.com> wrote:
| >John Hatcher enscribed:
| >| We are using a windows based telnet program to access our order entry
| >| system.  The problem we are having, is instead of disconnecting properly for
| >| our servers, our people are just closing the windows.  Hence we have a lor
| >| of runaway processes.
| >| 
| >| What I would like to do is find out how to kill these automatically after a
| >| certain time has passed.
| >
| >Teach the users to log out properly
| >Get an emulator that does a better job of closing sessions
| >Get the application fixed so it won't misbehave and start runaway processes.
| 
| These are definitely the best options.
| 
| If all else fails, you can try using CPU time limits to prevent having the
| runaway processes run and suck up CPU time forever (this assumes that by
| "runaway processes" you mean processes that are actually using CPU time).
| This would involve using the process accounting system to determine the maximum
| amount of CPU time ever legitimately used by the application (which shouldn't
| be too high if the users log out at the end of each day), and then using ksh's
| "ulimit -t" facility to set the maximum amount of CPU time the application can
| use before being killed to something higher than that.
| 
| There may be other things you can do depending on what release
| of the OS you're using.

Interesting method.

I use your proctree program (ftp.armory.com:/pub/scripts/proctree) as the
basis for a shell script that attempts to kill the processes on each tty 
in reverse order.  This usually gets children before they get disconnected
from their parents and controlling tty.
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