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.
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