[PATCH (WIP)] limit CPU usage of cgit processes

Eric Wong normalperson at yhbt.net
Wed Mar 21 02:52:54 CET 2012


Here's a work-in-progress patch which I've been running to
prevent crawlers/bots from using up all the CPU on my system
when doing expensive queries.

If it's interesting, it should be wired up to appropriate
config option...

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson at yhbt.net>
---
 cgit.c |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cgit.c b/cgit.c
index 1d50129..285467c 100644
--- a/cgit.c
+++ b/cgit.c
@@ -768,12 +768,25 @@ static int calc_ttl()
 	return ctx.cfg.cache_repo_ttl;
 }
 
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <sys/resource.h>
+static void init_rlimit(void)
+{
+	struct rlimit rlim = { .rlim_cur = 10, .rlim_max = 10 };
+	if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU, &rlim) != 0) {
+		perror("setrlimit");
+		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	}
+}
+
 int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
 	const char *path;
 	char *qry;
 	int err, ttl;
 
+	init_rlimit();
+
 	prepare_context(&ctx);
 	cgit_repolist.length = 0;
 	cgit_repolist.count = 0;
-- 
Eric Wong




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