[Info-vax] System parameters (and a marketing suggestion), was: Re: What Will Drive More OpenVMS Adoption?

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On Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 6:46:27 AM UTC-5, Johnny Billquist wrote:
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> And what does maxcpu mean? You're only allowed to use this much of a CPU 
> no matter how idle it is? 
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> Johnny

Yes.  There is a CPU field within the authorize record that limits the CPU time available for a process or one session.
This goes back to the timesharing days when CPU time was charged and accounts were limited by time (both CPU and elapsed).
I haven't seen this used on over 35 years.  All accounts these days have this set to 0 which is infinite time allowed.

Dan