On 11/14/05, Post, Mark K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But very much in line with "the user is always wrong and what they don't > know won't hurt them" philosophy that so often turns out to be correct.
At one customer we ended these discussions by defining the Linux guest as USER LINUX007 password 128M 2G G and disabled the DEF STOR command for class G users. Support staff could look the user straight in the eyes and confirm that the maximum was 2GB as requested, and the default is 128MB. When your users are slightly more educated and complain about poor performance of their Linux server and ask for more storage, suggest to just give it a try first to define less storage and see what happens. Because the IPL will drop the working set the new machine will be lean and mean and does not suffer from VM paging. The smaller machine will continue to be more responsive, but that is harder to explain. If you would have tried just to make the machine bigger like they asked, it will also be more lean and mean just after IPL and the user is happy. But over time when Linux has seen enough data it will be slow again. At that point the user will come and ask for more, and more... Rob -- Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
