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Hi folks,

I don't know if people have noticed yet, but there are considerable
changes on cgroups and its API being worked on.

As Slurm is a major user of control groups I would urge the developers
to get involved in the discussion to make sure what emerges does match
its needs.

The long term intention appears to be for a distro to have a single
process that will be able to manage cgroups, and for Fedora derived
distros (like RHEL) that will be systemd, for Upstart based distros
and those that use LXC containers that will be something else
(probably cgmanager).  For Debian it'll depend on which way they jump
on this.

The result is that Slurm will need to deal with at least 3 APIs in
future to manage control groups, rather than just 1.

The three being:

1) Legacy filesystem method
2) systemd
3) cgmanager

For an overview of the issue you can see this article:

https://lwn.net/Articles/574317/

and an article about the cgmanager project, and the systemd developers
unwillingness to cooperate on a single API, is here:

https://lwn.net/Articles/575672/

All the best,
Chris
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 Christopher Samuel        Senior Systems Administrator
 VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative
 Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545
 http://www.vlsci.org.au/      http://twitter.com/vlsci

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