There is also a potential issue with Linux 2.6 kernels where CPU usage for child threads is not reported in /proc/pid/stat. This problem has been confirmed in SuSE Linux 9.1. Note that SuSE SLES-8 machines with the 2.4 kernel appear to be unaffected.
See the related article for more information:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3930
This has been fixed in GridServer 4.1.
Issue/Introduction
Linux Engines do not shut down when the CPU load exceeds a preset limit