quota deadlocks and large quota.*-files

quota deadlocks and large quota.*-files

Post by Juergen Bauma » Sun, 10 May 1998 04:00:00



two problems (one minor) under 2.1.41-Kernel:

first, sometimes a deadlock occures for superblock on
quota-fs. always after sending a SIGHUP to apache, the
/var is in deadlock-situation (fatal), after removing
quota, all works well.
On another system this occured accidently on /,
unfortunately I don't know what was happened...

second, some quota.user and/or quota.group -files are
2MB large, but I can't see any reason for this...

maybe there is some information about these "features"
out there...

jb

 
 
 

1. Quotas : Format of quota.users & quota.groups ?

Hi,

I am running Linux-FT with kernel 1.2.13 and quota patches. I would like
to enable quotas in order to control memory usage by apps (I'm trying to
debug an app that keeps grabbing all system memory, preventing me from
typing kill).

In order to enable quotas, files called quota.users and quota.groups
need to be present in the root directory. The 'edquota'
program is supposed to be used to set these up, but it simply invokes vi,
expecting the user to know the file format. The man pages say that
the file format is 'inscrutable', but don't actually describe it anywhere!

Anyone know the correct format ?

Thanks in advance,

Steve

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Steve Mottram                                                             |
|                                                                           |
| University Department of Anaesthesia  |    Internal Phone : LRI 5694      |
| Leicester Royal Infirmary             |    Phone  :  +44 (0)116 258 5291  |
| Leicester LE1 5WW                     |    Fax    :  +44 (0)116 285 4487  |

|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Witty bit deleted due to budget cuts.                                     |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

2. Something to lighten the mood in here :)

3. file format of 'quotas' (Solaris disk quota system)?

4. preferred way to activate PPP under Redhat 4.1

5. QUOTA: File too large?

6. su command while in a program?

7. Quotas and problems copying large(ish) files

8. Squid consumes to much memory

9. Fix ext3+quota deadlock

10. Quotas on Solaris vs quotas on Linux

11. user quotas and printer usage quotas on NT domain

12. quota: format of quota.user

13. QUOTA - Crashes whenever someone goes over quota