Best Practices- USP: Handling excessive CPU Usage within a Process

Ruby Best Practices- USP: Handling excessive CPU Usage within a Process:

# Users of older Rubies may want to use Process::RLIMIT_CPU # instead of :CPU in this code. soft, hard = Process.getrlimit(:CPU) last_update = Time.now max_cpu_time = 5 # this signal handler runs once we've hit max_cpu_time: trap(:XCPU) do # Calculate CPU utilization based on elapsed (wall clock) time # and max_cpu_time elapsed = Time.now - last_update cpu_usage = max_cpu_time / elapsed puts "CPU utilization: #{"%0.2f" % (cpu_usage * 100)}" if cpu_usage > 0.5 # 50% abort "CPU utilization exceeded 50%" end # If we're below our CPU usage threshold, install a new limit based on # current Process.times last_update = Time.now t = Process.times Process.setrlimit(:CPU, max_cpu_time + t.utime.round + t.stime.round, hard) # We now return to our regularly scheduled looping ... end # Install an initial limit for max_cpu_time using existing process times t = Process.times Process.setr...

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