31 May
2019
31 May
'19
7:36 a.m.
My story is similar to most others here. University of Arkansas in the
early 90s enabled user disk quotas on the public access UNIX system - a
SPARCserver 2000 with 10 CPUs and gobs of disk. Each quota limit was
far higher than (total disk space) / (# user accounts). But each of the
17K students at the time was automatically provisioned an account during
registration. So it became a bit necessary to impose a limit - even if
one 98% of users would never come close to.
The dedicated college of engineering UNIX system was also a similarly
equipped SPARCserver 2000 and did not enforce any quotas. Unless the
sys-admin yelling in the hallway at the povray guy eating 100% x 10 CPUs
was technically a throttle / quota system. He was efficient too.
Zero'd in on the lab and workstation number by IP address and would be
over your shoulder in less than 10K ms if you were acting a fool!
-Alan
On 2019-05-30 09:49, David wrote:
I think it was BSD 4.1 that added quotas to the disk
system, and I was
just wondering if anyone ever used them, in academia or industry. As a
user and an admin I never used this and, while I thought it was
interesting, just figured that the users would sort it out amongst
themselves. Which they mostly did.
So, anyone ever use this feature?
David