What is considered acceptable use of the public login linux systems?
Since these are shared between many users, and are low-end compared to the systems in the batch farm, please only use them for their intended purposes:
Acceptable:
connecting from outside with ssh and hopping to internal systems
desktop work (mail, browser, TeX, ...)
software development
building, short test runs (< 5 minutes, at nice level 19)
Not acceptable:
production runs, test runs longer than 5 minutes or without being nice 19
- please use the batch farm for those
applies to any kind of software (experiment, mathematica, ...)
anything with huge memory requirements (significant compared to what the system has)
- again, run these on the batch farm
transferring/processing larger amounts of data, both internally and from/to the outside
- for internal transfers, again the batch farm can be used
for external transfers, see ../RemoteAccess