On 24 May 2012 15:20, Rayson Ho <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:44 AM, William Hay <[email protected]> wrote: >> I assume you are referring to your cgroups stuff here. Some of us are >> still using Linux versions without cgroups >> (like Scientific Linux 5). > > William, yes and no... I was mainly referring to cgroups integration's > ability to handle process tagging, but we also have something else > that we are adding in GE 2011.11u2 if most of our users are still > using very old kernels - note that the first cgroups capable kernel > came out in May 2008. > > BTW, our ssh HOWTO was updated yesterday to reflect the cgroups > integration's ability to use a stock sshd for tight job control: > > http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/howto/qrsh_qlogin_ssh.html > > > For those who are still using RHEL 5, CentOS 5, Oracle Linux 5, or > Scientific Linux 5 - ie. all the common RHEL based Linux > Distributions, a kernel upgrade is needed to use cgroups. It may sound > like a lot of work, but Oracle has already created a yum installable > package for the all of the RHEL based distributions. Installing > Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is as simple as upgrading a I'd thought of that in the past but was wondering how easy it would be to get patches etc for it without an Unbreakable Linux sub. My impression was that Oracle were like RedHat in this respect. You can get the code but they don't go out of their way to make it easy to do so without paying them...
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