CGI Resource Usage

CGI scripts and programs are subject to resource limitations as set forth by this policy. These limits may be enforced automatically by the system. The present limits are:

• Size of Core Files - 0 MB
• CPU Time Used - 30 seconds
• Memory Size - 32 MB
• Number of Open Files - 32
• Number of Simultaneous Processes - 8

Details of what these limits mean are available on the man page for setrlimit - use "man setrlimit" to read more.

CGI scripts are to be run only by users with the appropriate account types - Basic or higher for use of the System CGI, and Advanced or higher account levels for custom CGI scripting. No user may run CGI scripts for the benefit of external sites or services.

These limits are subject to change and variation as necessary, at the sole discretion of pair Networks.

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System resource limits are intended to prevent runaway CGI scripts. Also, processes with large memory footprints or hungry CPU requirements will incur swapping and other system slowdowns that reduce server performance.

Resource limits are enforced by automatic monitoring systems.