man setrlimit /RLIMIT_CPU Regards, Mohit Kalra "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." -SH This is a very short message but I haven't found any related work on lkml... have any of you tried to implement cpu-quota? any ideas about how to start? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/