The VM/370 Resource Limiter

The VM/370 Resource Limiter (RESLIM), a facility available on the computer systems of the IBM Thomas, J. Watson Research Center, enables users, user management, and the site's Computing Center to monitor and contorl usage of various computing resources. If a user's consumption of a particular resource exceeds a previously established limit, RESLIM takes actions designed to improve system performance and resource availability. Possible actions include degrading the user's priority, forcing the user off the system, or simply sending a warning message to the user and/or other VM users.