Ryan wrote:
I should know better than to feed a troll, but Labs is relatively heavily used.
I'm sorry if that was perceived as trolling. I know most of that stuff, I like it, I've advertised some of those projects quite a lot myself etc., but it seems to be nowhere close to a few hundreds users doing very expensive and maybe silly things as those DaB. mentioned: queries lasting days, grep or sed run on hundreds of GiB of stuff, scripts taking 4 GiB of memory etc.; not to mention all sorts of queries which can be triggered by any of the tens of thousands of users of the web tools on TS. That said, of course you know better what's the capacity of Labs; what I can be sure of is that it's not infinite as you almost pretend. Anyway, the problem is not (yet) if typical TS stuff will have enough resources but if it will be possible at all (current answer: no, never! change how you do things instead!).
Nemo