I don't think it's supported in Son of GridEngine.  Ondrej Valousek (cc'd)
described in the first thread here
http://arc.liv.ac.uk/pipermail/sge-discuss/2019-August/thread.html
how he was able to implement it, but it required code changes, i.e. you
would need to figure out how to build and install SGE from source, which is
a task in itself.

Dan


On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 12:46 PM Dietmar Rieder <dietmar.rie...@i-med.ac.at>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> thanks for your reply. This sounds promising.
> We are using Son of Grid Engine though. Can you point me to the right
> docs to get cgroup enabled in the exec host (CentOS 7). I must admit I
> have no experience with cgroups.
>
> Thanks again
>   Dietmar
>
> On 8/26/19 4:03 PM, Skylar Thompson wrote:
> > At least for UGE, you will want to use the CPU set integration, which
> will
> > assign the job to a cgroup that has one CPU per requested slot. Once you
> > have cgroups enabled in the exec host OS, you can then set these options
> in
> > sge_conf:
> >
> > cgroup_path=/cgroup
> > cpuset=1
> >
> > You can use this mechanism to have the m_mem_free request enforced as
> well.
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 02:15:22PM +0200, Dietmar Rieder wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> may be this is a stupid question, but I'd like to limit the used/usable
> >> number of cores to the number of slots that were reserved for a job.
> >>
> >> We often see that people reserve 1 slot, e.g. "qsub -pe smp 1 [...]"
> >> but their program is then running in parallel on multiple cores. How can
> >> this be prevented? Is it possible that with reserving only one slot a
> >> process can not utilize more than this?
> >>
> >> I was told the this should be possible in slurm (which we don't have,
> >> and to which we don't want to switch to currently).
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>   Dietmar
> >
>
>
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