Well nothing, but I think we sometimes just reinventing wheel. Some duties can be offloaded to a service which is designed to do this (and possibly better).
Another benefit is the Cgroups v2 support which we curenly lack. Ondrej On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 12:02 AM Sid Young <sid.yo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Whats wrong with just using the tools as is? > > > Sid Young > > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 5:54 AM Ondrej Valousek <ondrej.valou...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi list, >> I am wondering if there is a plugin allowing to submit jobs via SystemD >> (I.e. using systemd-run) on exec nodes. >> >> I have actually modified SGE sources to offer this option (available at >> https://github.com/daimh/sge) and it works quite well. >> >> The advantages are: >> - we let systemd to track and manage job (jobs are started as services) >> so do not have to do it ourselves. >> - we use systemd to get job stats (cpu/mem usage etc) >> - we let systemd to manage cgroups for us (which means cgroups v2 can be >> nicely supported this way) >> >> Disadvantages: >> - it expects SystemD (I.e. Linux only) is installed on all exec clients >> - minimal version we can live with is SystemD 230, for best results 240 >> or newer. >> >> Anyone interested? >> Cheers, >> Ondrej >> >
