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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. [cc_bash] #!/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” killall aacplusenc fi [/cc_bash] Be the […]