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

[Henry Crun]

On 08/12/2021 14:25, abrsvc wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 6:46:27 AM UTC-5, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> .
>>
>> And what does maxcpu mean? You're only allowed to use this much of a CPU
>> no matter how idle it is?
>>
>> 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
>

I have seen it used whan there is a danger of a batch job going into an unstoppable loop


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