> Am 07.12.2015 um 16:50 schrieb William Hay <[email protected]>:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 03:20:08PM +0000, Ondrej Valousek wrote:
>> SGE can use CGROUPS for this bookkeeping you mentioned, too. It is just a 
>> different filesystem, so it is quite simple to figure out which process 
>> belongs to which cgroup.
>> To me, when using cgroups, additional GID should not be needed any longer. 
>> At least per:
>> 
>> http://blogs.scalablelogic.com/2012/05/grid-engine-cgroups-integration.html
>> 
>> Ondrej
> I think the cgroups implementation on SoGE differs from the OGS one.
> It doesn't do everything the  OGS one does.
> 
> Supplementary GIDS are more portable than cgroups and have a natural fit to 
> the
> traditional unix access control model.


Yeah - that's a good point, as SGE was always built for heterogeneous clusters 
consisting of various OS; and Solaris or FreeBSD nodes could also be a part of 
it.

-- Reuti


> While cgroups are probably better
> than GIDs for killing jobs.
> One thing we do with the additional GID is control access to GPUs by chgrping
> them from the prolog.  While I believe you can do similar tricks with cgroups
> its a little more involved.
> 
> Is the additional GID actually causing you any problems?
> 
> William
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