Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:37:48 +0100 | From | BOSZORMENYI Zoltan <> | Subject | Quota and memory requirements question |
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Hi!
A local ISP asked me to ask this question. They have ~3500 users on a machine that had 128M memory and they use quota on that machine.
They frequently get messages from random programs that cannot fork. init, pop3d and other programs appear in the logs complaining about this.
It happens with many kernelversions with quota turned on. It does not happen with quota turned off. They doubled the memory in that machine almost a week ago and the errors haven't showed up since then.
The question is: is it normal? 128M is not enough for quota against 3500 users? It should be documented somewhere that kernel service X eats Y amount of memory with Z number of users, at least some rough estimates.
Thanks, Zoltan Boszormenyi
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