Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:30:41 -0800 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers on top of nsproxy! |
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> 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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