From: James Mohr <linux-newbie@jimmo.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: process time limit?
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:22:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200206270922.53605.linux-newbie@jimmo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200206262336.g5QNacfR020637@franklin.icok.net>
This does not specifically address your question, but I think this is actually
the answer you wanted:
http://www.linux-tutorial.info/cgi-bin/display.pl?266&0&0&0&3
regards,
jimmo
On Thursday 27 June 2002 01:39, Jim Reimer wrote:
> I have a script run by cron once every half hour which
> gets a RADAR image, does some manipulation on the file,
> and stores it. It's been running fine for a few weeks
> now.
>
> However, when I got home from work today, the computer
> was *very* sluggish, and 'ps' showed many many instances
> of both the script and 'giftopnm' (one of the programs
> used in the script). I don't know what went wrong, but
> giftopnm was hanging and not allowing the script to
> complete.
>
> So - is there any way to limit the amount of time a
> cronjob (or any other job) can live?
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-27 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-26 23:39 process time limit? Jim Reimer
2002-06-27 0:52 ` Jos Lemmerling
2002-06-27 7:22 ` James Mohr [this message]
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