BTW, we dual-boot the RHEL kernel & the UEK (haven't tried UEK2 yet). The advantage of this setup is that we could always go back to the RHEL kernel with just a reboot. Also, we just need to setup OGS/GE (or any other software packages) once and can test it with both kernels.
Rayson On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Chi Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > Oracle offered free Oracle Enterprise Linux updates even as early as > 2009. However, Oracle did not wirely promote the service. > > https://blogs.oracle.com/sergio/entry/new_oracle_public_yum_server_1 > > --Chi > > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Ron Chen <[email protected]> wrote: >> William, >> >> Oracle changed the Oracle Linux support structure in March this year. >> Quoting the Senior VP of Linux and Virtualization Engineering, "The nice >> thing is, if you want a complete up to date system without >> support, use this, if you then need support, get a support subscription. >> Simple, convenient, effective." >> >> https://blogs.oracle.com/wim/entry/lots_of_goodies >> >> >> All you need is point yum config to the Oracle Public YUM >> @ http://public-yum.oracle.com/ >> >> -Ron >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: William Hay <[email protected]> >> To: Rayson Ho <[email protected]> >> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:20 AM >> Subject: Re: [gridengine users] Tight SGE-SSH Integration >> >> 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... >> >> William >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
