From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 01e299bc for ; Fri, 31 May 2019 01:45:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id E5FA59B860; Fri, 31 May 2019 11:45:04 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6EF29B6B2; Fri, 31 May 2019 11:44:36 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id A68499B680; Fri, 31 May 2019 11:44:34 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 477 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Fri, 31 May 2019 11:44:34 AEST Received: from taz.retrotronics.org (taz.retrotronics.org [66.228.61.155]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 365CA9B67F for ; Fri, 31 May 2019 11:44:34 +1000 (AEST) Received: from www.retrotronics.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by taz.retrotronics.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1C6B14D8DA for ; Thu, 30 May 2019 21:36:36 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 21:36:36 -0400 From: alan@alanlee.org To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: <975B93B6-AD7C-41B5-A14D-2DE4FEFAD3A6@kdbarto.org> References: <975B93B6-AD7C-41B5-A14D-2DE4FEFAD3A6@kdbarto.org> Message-ID: <3ab907e0bdf1be98c1c628ce3957b415@alanlee.org> X-Sender: alan@alanlee.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.3.2 Subject: Re: [TUHS] Quotas - did anyone ever use them? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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