I feel as though this should be a rule - yes, certain tools and programs will need more resources than others, but at the same time the examples you're citing read to me as simply excessive.

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Sent from my Windows Phone From: DaB. Sent: 5/14/2012 17:31 To: toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: TS-ML-Announce Subject: [Toolserver-l] Fairness on the toolserver Hello all,

the resources on the TS are free, but limited; so we all have to use the resources fair. Some limits (like memory-usage) are set and controlled by the system, but others are not and it is in the responsibility of every single user to make sure to not mis- or overuse resources. So it is for example NOT a good idea to run 200 processes in parallel to get more CPU-resources than you would normally get. And it is not a good idea to use a amount of memory which is just below the slayer-daemon-limit without any purpose.

Sincerely, DaB.

P.S: It is totally in the rules to disable a user-account because of resource- misusing.