On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 11:28:58AM -0600, Calvin Dodge wrote: > While the help we received from this and other gridengine lists helped > us resolve the issue of jobs being mysteriously killed, we've been > asked to look into converting the customer's SGE cluster, using > cgroups for job management. > > The cluster is running gridengine 8.1.9, on Linux kernel > 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64 (Centos 7.3.1611). Can anyone comment on the > reliability of using cgroups for job management in that environment? > I ask because I ran across some web pages which stated that for some > versions of gridengine and kernel this was a Bad Idea. > Setting USE_CGROUPS in execd_params should handle job killing fine in 8.1.9. It was buggy in 8.1.8 and earlier. Note that USE_CGROUPS configures the use of cpuset cgroups (or original cpusets on older kernels). It doesn't configure memory cgroups or any other variety of cgroup. If you want that then you'll have to write wrapper scripts.
William
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