As far as for the programmers, lower their sessions down to the
     "E" queue.

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Subject: Transcient Space
Author:  Mark A Hocraffer <[log in to unmask]> at SMTP-PO
Date:    10/14/97 2:54 PM


Is there an easy way to tell how much transcient space a session is
consuming??  Last week we had disc space problems because one of our
programmers logged on to our Production machine before 7:30 in the morning
and ran a multiple pass Quiz program with large subfiles.  He did not
logoff to get those temp files purged and was going to wait until noon to
continue processing.  Unfortunately at 11:20, we ran out of disc space on
that volume set (Yes, the system volume set where that TEST account
resides).  The first thing I checked was for anyone running Quiz (which
they are not supposed to do during the day).  On a wild hair - actually
past performance, I aborted that session and got two million sectors back
immediately.  Had I had something to tell how much transcient space he was
consuming I would have aborted him sooner.  This occurred again today but
fortunately I had installed a new disc drive over the weekend to combat
this.

mark hocraffer
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P.S.  Any suggestions for what to do with those two programmers??  We have
the noose strung over the tree and would proceed but unfortunately Iowa
does not permit capital punishment yet!