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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: clean up some cacherev mess
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: clean up some cacherev mess |
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Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:57:11 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.11 |
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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- [Gnu-arch-users] patch: clean up some cacherev mess, Derek Zhou, 2005/11/18
- RE: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: clean up some cacherev mess, Derek Zhou, 2005/11/22
- RE: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: clean up some cacherev mess, Derek Zhou, 2005/11/23
- RE: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: clean up some cacherev mess, Derek Zhou, 2005/11/23
- RE: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: clean up some cacherev mess, Derek Zhou, 2005/11/23