the most sonsumption part for quotas is the initialization , ie when the filer boot or when you cycle quota off then on if you have 100 entries in your quotas file, there is not a big load on the filer if you have 10000 entries in your quotas file, there will be great load make sure you use default quotas (qutas statring with a *) when editing quotas file as it really helps you in avoiding using quotas off/on
Wilfried Gaensheimer wrote:
Hi,
we are considering introducing quotas on our filer to prevent the "one user takes it all" situation, that happened several times and made the rest of the crew pretty unhappy.
Anyway, before doing that, I would like to check: Is there any "massive" performance degradation to be expected? Could someone out there share their real-life experience? Would be great.
Am I right that quotas should have an impact on write, only? And some extra CPU load?
We use NFS, Clients are Solaris8. No qtree, just three appr. 400GByte Volumes?
Any hint to documentation and common pitfalls is highly welcome.
Bye, thanks wilfried