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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Performance and batch jobs.
Message-ID: <1733@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 87 23:36:11 GMT
References: <UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU:LAGN$uXK*>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <UWAVM.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU:LAGN$uXK*> WIZARD@RITA.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU 
(The Bandit "." "." "." "", on" "RITA) writes:
>Why didn't the user compile and link his program?  Because he couldn't LINK
>it.  He was only 20,000+ blocks over his disk quota (which was about 2000
>blocks).   (Most languages get installed here with EXQUOTA, but not the
>linker.)

A good solution to this is to make SYS$SCRATCH point to a device with
plenty of scratch disk space, and to have a batch job clean out old
files every 15 minutes.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi