On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 06:24:32PM +0100, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
> Am Don, 2002-10-31 um 15.09 schrieb Herbert Poetzl:
> > but don't forget that soft quota can and should be
> > used as a kind ofoverbooking, but within statistical
> > limits ...
> > 
> > for example if you have 1000M userspace and 20 users
> > you could either give them 50M hard limit or
> > 40M hard and 60M soft quota, and usually it will work

should read 40M soft and 60M hard (as everybody knows *G*)

> > out fine ...
> Well, that's fine when managing a students lab, but can get you in
> trouble with paying customers. (Well, if you have a service-quality
> contract at least)

I do not encourage this strategy, but if overbooking
is the way you want to have it, you should at least
make some calculations ...

> Andreas

best,
Herbert

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