[clo-devel] upgrading: how do you (want to) use cl.net? [detected: very large home directories]

[Erik Huelsmann]

Hi Raymond,

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Huelsmann <ehuels at gmail.com> writes:
>
>    Erik> Ok. That's probably not too practical indeed. I've contacted
>    Erik> some of the biggest users. Cleaning out some of the old
>    Erik> cruft from their home directories made /home go down to a
>    Erik> usage of 60%. With that percentage, I know our scaling
>    Erik> doesn't need adapting. I'm considering how to deal with the
>    Erik> situation for the future. On one hand I think installing a
>    Erik> quota of 200MB on the /home directory of each user
>    Erik> separately sounds sane and not too restrictive. Otoh, maybe
>    Erik> with some monitoring, we can resolve the situation in a less
>    Erik> strict way: after all, there's the request at sign-up to use
>    Erik> the resources of cl.net
>
> As one of the offenders (who has corrected his ways!), perhaps a
> gentle email reminder sent out one a month or so for people who have
> exceeded some soft quota would be sufficient?
>
> I know a main reason for my excessive usage was that I forgot that I
> had left some experimental tarballs and such around.  They were
> supposed to be temporary for someone to try them out for me.  I just
> plain forgot about them, so an email reminder would have let me know.

In all honesty: I was one too :-)  I didn't even know my /home had
grown that big, so, I guess you have a point. Automating such a mail
shouldn't be too difficult either. Let's go with that solution and see
where we end up.



Regards,

Erik.