May be using luaLanes and lane priorities? I have not tested in linux but only on win32 ----- Original Message ----- From: Alexander Altshuler To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 10:54 AM Subject: Re: luajit state CPU time limit On 4 November 2014 22:47, Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Александр Киранов <xhaskx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So, when some lua_State consumed too many CPU I need to know it and handle > it on LUA or on C level. better handle it at the OS level. Linux includes many different tools to limit resources. LXC and cgroups spring to mind. I would start here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt But you will have to decompose your application into some processes to get proper control granularity. Regards Alexander