Re: top delay value

Well, an unprivileged user can achieve the same effect by
typing "while :; do :; done". There are a thousand ways
to waste CPU time, and there is no way to prevent a user
from doing it.

It is not the same effect.

You describe fork bombing.
Many forked processes eat up the CPU.

I could limit the number of process via

:maxproc=100: \

in /etc/login.conf

If you want to make top more secure, type "chmod 700 /usr/bin/top".

:-)

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