Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers on top of nsproxy!

Paul Jackson
2007-03-09T04:30:40Z

> The real trick is that I believe these groupings are designed to be something
> you can setup on login and then not be able to switch out of. Which means
> we can't use sessions and process groups as the grouping entities as those
> have different semantics.

Not always on login. For big administered systems, we use batch schedulers
to manage the placement of multiple jobs, submitted to a run queue by users,
onto the available compute resources.

But I agree with your conclusion - the existing task grouping mechanisms,
while useful for some purposes, don't meet the need here.

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