Hi Shannon
I'll go out on a limb and say that it's not my practise to *limit* the
storage of individual programmers, but instead I prefer to manage the
system storage effectively. That includes *managing* the storage used
by individuals but I generally try and avoid explicitly limiting it.
I would certainly collect and report storage by user profile on a
weekly or at least monthly basis and if possible track growth in
storage by individual. But my management efforts would be directed at
preventing a storage overflow by having some kind of monitoring to
alert when the storage reached a threshold (say 95%) and setting the
system storage lower limit to shut the system down to a restricted
state to prevent a hard overflow. I might have the system value
slightly wrong as I am working on memory.
My experience over the last few years has been that (for example)
temporary storage for SQL and journal receivers not being cleaned up
has consumed more storage ans threatened availability more than
individual developers writing large files or tables.
I view the storage as an asset so if someone needs to use it
temporarily and it is not already being used I don't have a problem
with it. Over the longer haul I've spent more time arguing about
appropriate limits and if people should be allowed more storage (they
always get it) than I ever did managing overflows caused by an
individual going crazy or being careless, though that has also
happened occasionally (not for a very long time).
At the end of the day the approach you choose should reflect the
actual storage available to you on the system, It is quite a bit
harder (but not impossible) to fill a system up these days and the
time between being warned and a critical point being reached is a bit
more comfortable than back when systems were much smaller.
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Shannon ODonnell
<sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
What is a good, average, storage limit to set for a programmer on their
user profile?
I am setting up some user profiles for new developers and I want to give
them a limit on the amount of storage they can use.
I can and probably will adjust that amount over time but I want to prevent
anyone from creating giant databases or user spaces, and such.
Thanks in advance for all suggestions!
Shannon O'Donnell
midrange.com
