Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
IF you tell people what the rates are, and LIMIT them, fine.
If you tell people that they will be throttled in the event of resource conflict, fine too -- though if you see it repeatedly, it's time for more resources or hard limits.
If you suspend a user for overusing a resource without defining overuse, not fine.
It's also acceptable to let users go over the limit when it's not impacting system performance, as long as you don't ban/block/spank users who are under the published limit when the system is overloaded.
Yes, *IF* it's a limit. *NOT* if it's "there are no limits, but we'll spank you if you're using too much when there's overload... whatever 'too much' is."
