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