How to assign RAM quotas

[Daniel Carrera]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mansec?1+limit
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> One concern is: What happens when a thin-client user starts OpenOffice? 
> Do they get the entire OpenOffice size subtracted from their quota? What 
> if 10 people start OpenOffice? Do they all get that size subtracted from 
> their quota although OpenOffice itself is only loaded once?

One idea is to use the -d flag:

     -d    The number of K-bytes on the size of the data area.

In other words, users could still run many memory-hogging applications 
(OpenOffice, Gimp, Gnome) but they'd be limited on how much data they 
could have. I thinking that this could provide most of the benefit 
without the potential unfairness of "charging" users for the application 
size.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Daniel.
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