Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: clean up some cacherev mess

[Andrew Suffield]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 04:54:18PM -0500, James Blackwell wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:16:02PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > tmpreaper is to clean up stale locks and stuff like that. People
> > caught *filling* /tmp get their accounts deleted, because they broke
> > the box.
> 
> Hmm. What would you do to the sysadmin that hadn't setup quota?

Quotas on /tmp aren't hugely practical/useful - it's too small. This
is one of those things which falls under "Don't be a dick" in the
rules for users - don't run forkbombs, don't consume all cpu cycles
all the time at priority 0, and don't fill /tmp.

Quotas on /home depend on expected use. They're sometimes useful,
sometimes not. If not, see "Don't be a dick".


As a general rule, the available space needs to be on the order of
(active users * quota per user) for quotas to be useful (note that 'on
the order of' means it could be, for example, half that value, but not
1% of it).

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