Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!vlsi!watale!tom From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: limiting resources Message-ID: <3302@watale.waterloo.edu> Date: 28 Sep 89 21:08:10 GMT References: <50*doelz@urz.unibas.ch> Sender: daemon@watale.waterloo.edu Organization: WATMIMS Research Group, University of Waterloo Lines: 19 Reinhard Doelzwrites: > 1) disk space of users might be limited by setting more than the default > partitions, e.g., create new partitions and put each group of users on > one of them. Once a device is full, there is no way to write on the device > any longer. I did that , and esp. the /tmp device proved to be useful. > Once /tmp is on the normal file system (/), it is easy to hang the entire > system by calling vi on a 40 MByte ascii fie etc. Well, we have /tmp on a separate partition (the root partition) with normally about 8.5 MB of free space. But the downside of this is that I can not vi a one-megabyte ascii file! The temp file would be about 9 MB, I think! Does anyone know why vi creates such monster temp files? Can't this be fixed (by someone who has source)? \tom haapanen "now, you didn't really expect tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu my views to have anything to do watmims research group with my employer's, did you?" university of waterloo