From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: David <david@kdbarto.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Quotas - did anyone ever use them?
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 14:50:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1906041440090.24986@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <975B93B6-AD7C-41B5-A14D-2DE4FEFAD3A6@kdbarto.org>
A couple of Cambridge quota-related anecdotes:
In its early days the Debian bug tracker was run out of Ian Jackson's
personal account on our central Unix service. He had to delete bugs when
they were closed to keep within his disk quota.
Our mail software Exim has a two-level quota system: it handles quota
errors from the OS as a hard limit, with some annoying portability hacks
https://github.com/Exim/exim/blob/master/src/src/transports/appendfile.c#L1208
Exim it also has its own per-mailbox quota implementation. This can help
control memory usage (mainly by Pine, back in the day...) as well as
providing soft limit warnings and other bells and whistles.
Tony.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-04 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-30 13:49 David
2019-05-30 14:23 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2019-05-30 14:26 ` Dan Cross
2019-05-30 14:27 ` Rico Pajarola
2019-05-31 7:16 ` George Ross
2019-05-30 14:29 ` Robert Brockway
2019-05-30 14:34 ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-05-30 14:48 ` John P. Linderman
2019-05-30 14:57 ` Jim Geist
2019-05-30 14:55 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2019-05-30 15:00 ` KatolaZ
2019-05-30 17:28 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-05-30 19:19 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-05-30 20:42 ` Warner Losh
2019-05-30 22:23 ` George Michaelson
2019-05-31 1:36 ` alan
2019-05-31 19:07 ` Pete Wright
2019-05-31 20:43 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-05-31 20:59 ` Pete Wright
2019-06-01 0:30 ` reed
2019-06-04 13:50 ` Tony Finch [this message]
2019-05-30 16:04 Noel Chiappa
2019-05-30 16:48 ` KatolaZ
2019-05-30 17:42 ` ron
2019-05-31 0:21 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-05-31 0:37 ` Larry McVoy
2019-05-31 0:42 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-05-31 15:05 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-05-31 16:06 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-05-31 16:15 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-05-31 16:38 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-05-31 15:55 ` Rico Pajarola
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