[cfarm-users] cfarm108 testing notice

[Zach van Rijn]

From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche at acm.org>
To: "GCC Compile Farm Users"<cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net>
Cc: "Zach van Rijn"<me at zv.io>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:58:46 -0500
Subject: Re: [cfarm-users] cfarm108 testing notice

 > On 3/27/26 12:42 PM, Zach van Rijn via cfarm-users wrote:
 > > 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.
 > It is not clear to me where the requirement for non-overlapping ranges
 > for process identifiers comes from? Docker should support process (PID)
 > namespaces, isn't it?

The "rootless" Docker configuration uses namespaces indeed.

The non-overlapping part comes from supporting multiple concurrent users.