Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:02:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:02:27 -0400 Received: from hellcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil ([204.222.179.34]:22692 "EHLO hellcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:02:26 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Jesse Pollard To: jimsibley@earthlink.net Subject: Re: [No Subject] Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 13:02:57 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@conectiva.com.br, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200209131302.57197.pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1318 Lines: 34 On Friday 13 September 2002 12:39 pm, Jim Sibley wrote: > First, please change your replies to me to jimsibley@earthlink.net and drop > the IBM address. Some of my replies may not reflect IBM's position. > > Also please drop the LTC address in your replies. I'm told that the address > is not a > place to discuss issues like this. So much for monolithic turf wars. > > Anyway, back to the important stuff. > > GID might be sufficient if you reserve some GID for resource balancing and > use the /proc interface to update it. Only when a process can have one gid. This usually means a single user/application system, in which case you still can't determine which process to kill since they are all in the same group. Most production shops I have worked in requires multiple groups per user, which gets translated into multiple GIDs per process. This defeats your use of GIDs for resource allocation. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesse I Pollard, II Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil Any opinions expressed are solely my own. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/