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- From: craa27@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ( Steve Holmes, Computer Centre )
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Advice on Large UNIX installations please
- Keywords: Resource Quotas
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.154512.21468@ccsun.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:45:12 GMT
- Sender: news@ccsun.strath.ac.uk (News account )
- Reply-To: craa27@ccsun.strath.ac.uk
- Organization: Strathclyde University Computer Centre.
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- At Strathclyde we are discussing the pros and cons of moving from a
- many small discless machines type of setup to one with Xterminals
- and a few large UNIX boxex to run applications.
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- We already run a DEC VMS central service which is laughingly referred
- to as our "Mainframe" installation. It has the nice feature that
- resources such as memory and cpu cycles can be limited for each user.
-
- Our worry is that users of large packages may hog a large UNIX machine,
- and we would like to be able to place quotas on the resources in a similar
- fashion as on our VMS service. We would also like to be able to run a batch
- queue in the evening and at weekends.
-
- I would be very grateful if anybody could mail me details of facilities to
- place quotas on users run time resources on any UNIX systems.
- Details of any existing batch systems would be equally gratefully recieved.
-
- Many thanks in advance
-
- Steve Holmes (Strathclyde Uni Computing Service)
-