For those who missed the Gompute User Group Meeting: http://blogs.scalablelogic.com/2012/05/grid-engine-cgroups-integration.html
As most of the users are running Linux, it is now time to use a more modern mechanism for the PDC to track process-job membership. We will further enhance the cgroups integration beyond the Grid Engine 2011.11 update 1 release - eg. we are planning to support device whitelisting in a future update. Rayson P.S. We will create a series of blog postings for the OGS/GE 2011.11 update 1 new features. On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Reuti <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 15.05.2012 um 11:26 schrieb William Hay: > >> <snip> >> Recent versions of Linux support cgroups which should allow control of >> real memory usage but I don't believe that >> any of the current Grid Engine forks use them for this purpose. Some >> recent grid engine forks do put jobs in cgroups >> via hwloc to control CPU usage and you could possibly modify these >> groups to control memory as well via the various >> hooks grid engine provides. > > Yes, cgroups will be a good tool for it. Also for process control, i.e. it > should even work without the additional group id to avoid runaway processes. > But cgroups are Linux only AFAIK. > > -- Reuti > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
