Version 8.1.7 of the Son of Grid Engine distribution is available from <http://arc.liv.ac.uk/downloads/SGE/releases/8.1.7/>, with various bug fixes and enhancements. A notable fix is for the longstanding problem of occasional major space leaks in qmaster with schedd_job_info=true.
Please report bugs, patches and suggestions for enhancement <https://arc.liv.ac.uk/trac/SGE#mail>. Release notes: * Building * Remove the shipped old jemalloc in favour of an external one (aimk -jemalloc) * Always use system libraries -- never load SSL stuff dynamically * aimk no longer uses specific paths for openssl etc. Use INPUT_*_FLAGS if necessary * SUpport building rpm on OpenSuSE and RHEL7 * Bug fixes * Man, other doc, and message fixes/changes [#1504] * Fix minor memory leaks and check result of all malloc calls * Don't pause for a second with client JSVs [#1475] * Allow longer "failed" strings in admin mail * Fix spurious thread error reports from qping [#588] * Avoid possible crash reading malformed configuration files * Fix GUI installer startup [#1488] * Always define SGE_STARTER_USE_LOGIN_SHELL with starter method * Modify cpuset-based process killing [#1483, #1490] * Make various files optional when setting permissions at installation * Fix cpu-bound shepherd with qlogin * Fix queue list for adding queue in qmon [#1495] * Clean up some file permissions and shebangs in non-executables [#1493] * Really ignore -e, -o args of qrsh/qsh/qlogin, as documented * Fix use of SGE_QMASTER_PIDFILE and double writing of pid file * Fix occasional qmaster major space leak with schedd_job_info [#360, #682] * Wait until daemon goes down when stopping sge_execd * Enhancements * Support Cygwin x86_64, and GNU/Linux on arm64 and ppc64el (untested) * qconf -aattr et al now support modifying types user, userset, calendar, and project * Translate exit code to signal name in qacct output * qacct -m prints only master tasks * Add ar_sub_time to qacct output * Allow rctemplate configuration from /etc/sysconfig as well as /etc/default * Update MPI PE templates and install a tight integration "mpi" PE * Make suid files, dtrace, qmon, start_gui_installer optional in setfileperm.sh (used at installation) * Speed up JSV in bash by not calling cut * Potentially incompatible changes * Default ENABLE_ADDGRP_KILL to on * Clean symbol exports from libdrmaa.so (GNU ld only); now only exports drmaa_* and Java_com_sun_grid_* * Non-public functions in Bourne shell JSV implementation are prefixed with "_" * qping -info prints (very different) malloc statistics when the daemon uses jemalloc. See print_malloc_info in sge_conf(5). -- Community Grid Engine: http://arc.liv.ac.uk/SGE/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
