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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Bill Hawes wrote: > Simon Kirby wrote:> > > I have also had to raise the limit on our webservers here...Is there > > anything wrong with setting the initial limit to something like 4096 or > > even higher? It only gets allocated when needed, correct? It's also not > > something a user is going to be able to abuse...or is it?> > Quota is allocated when needed but never freed, so the number should stabilize at some > point and not need to be raised. Setting the quota max to a level comparable but > smaller than inode max would probably be a good starting point. It's possible that > under some conditions quota max might need to be greater than inode max -- with both > user and group quotas enabled, one inode might need two dquots. > > Also, you should be able to increase quota max on the fly (as root) if you're getting > "waiting for quota" messages. Right...but I was talking about changing the default of 256 in the kernel. Would it be a good idea? Simon- | Simon Kirby | Systems Administration | | mailto:sim@netnation.com | NetNation Communications | | http://www.netnation.com/ | Tech: (604) 684-6892 | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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