Webhosting : good system to control server load on cpanel

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This web hosting thread started by Chinese Democracy 0n 30 June 2009

Can someone suggest a good method to have processes controlled in the resources they use, in a shared cpanel environment?

For example, it appears that the cpanel backup (compressed) made the load skyrocket to beyond 60% cpu and 95% memory usage today, and this server is beefy to begin with.

I want some system to kill processes immediately if they exceed X amount of resources or kill processes that spiral out of control (X amount of processes from same user).

I’d like to be alerted of this action as well.

How can I set this up?

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