[cfarm-users] cfarm108 testing notice

[Zach van Rijn]

On Mon, 2026-02-09 at 17:02 -0600, Zach van Rijn via cfarm-users
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> cfarm108 will be undergoing all sorts of testing, rebooting,
> having services restarted, memory used up, etc. over the next
> few weeks in an effort to determine the best configuration for
> Compile Farm use (ideally giving users secure Docker access).

Testing is ongoing and progress is being made towards providing
unprivileged GPU-enabled Docker access on this machine (with the
eventual goal being to do the same on cfarm107/cfarm109).

The challenge in implementing this comes from the fact that we
have over 1100 users and that the mechanism of implementation
requires unique, non-overlapping ranges for process identifiers
while adhering to other system limits and avoiding unnecessary
resource consumption. This requires a more surgical approach.

The shortcut approach is to enable these features for a limited
subset of user accounts but this is not ideal, a non-starter.

I'll do a write-up and provide instructions and an announcement
once these capbilities have been made available to all users.


Zach