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Limit number of instances of a specific process and user

22-Jul-10

I’m using this to limit the number of processes that Ampache spawns. Sometimes, it goes hay-wire. #!/bin/sh cmd="$1" lim="$2" user="$3" || "www" numprocs=`ps -U www | grep "$cmd" | wc -l` echo "Found $numprocs comparing to $lim" if [ "$numprocs" -gt "$lim" ]; then         echo "found $numprocs processes"       [...]