[Gllug] Forcing CPU and Mem limits on a process

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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, John Hearns prattled cheerily:
> The usage in Gridengine is time-averaged (the half-life is configurable)
> The intention is that groups or individuals within a company or uni get
> shares allocated. You can submit as many jobs as you want, and if the
> CPU time is available they will get run. But your priority is adjusted
> down till over time the usage averages out.
> If the other groups aren't using their allocation you will still get to
> run.

Yeah, that's quite different from what I was describing (very nifty,
too).

That sort of distributed scheduling is definitely difficult stuff to
get right (OK, it's been proved nearly impossible).

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