<> ==== 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