Ext3 is a great idea, and again, RH7.0 doesn't support it without a kernel recompile and/or a patch.
I think that's the place to start, personally... Upgrade your kernel. Ditto for User Mode Linux. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 4:46 PM Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Programmer(s)/User(s) crashing my system. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 12 November 2002 04:30, Roy Souther wrote: > > Try using /etc/security/limits.conf to restrict the amout of RAM, CPU > > usage they can have. > > Make sure they can not install binarys into places like /usr/bin or > > /usr/local make them run their binaries for $HOME/bin and set up disk > > quotas so they don't use to much space. > > this is exactly what i thought when reading the parent. > > only a couple things to add: > > stop using ext2 on a server with that much disk that may be brought to its > knees because of development happening on it. use a journaled filesystem like > ext3 (which you can upgrade ext2 from w/out reformatting) and your fschecks > will take up a lot less of your time ;-) > > as for large files, as long as you are using a 2.4 kernel you will big file > support, allowing files up to 16terabytes even on 32 bit platforms. more info > can be had at: http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html > > take care and best of luck w/your crashy server. > > of course, you could always just take to whipping the developers whenever the > system goes down. i understand developers respond well to frequent and savage > beatings. ;-) > > - -- > Aaron J. Seigo > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > > "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" > - Albert Einstein > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE90ZLq1rcusafx20MRAmbeAJ94BCny6Xsn6wIWFDZoClnwjEfgdgCeKnMT > Mi9crB4ssq2uCaYzltHksFs= > =hMJD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >
