CSCF Linux Working Group 2020-12-15

Announcements

Power outage of MC 3015 server room: https://rt.uwaterloo.ca/Ticket/Display.html?id=1123196

DFSc no changes until after the Dec 23

Organisation

How do we want to organisation.

Propose moving meetings to alternate Wednesdays 10:45 to 11:45

People send in agenda items by end of Monday, Chair to decide if enough for a meeting, publishing agenda in chat.

Resource Usage

Had a student doing a course project use all the available RAM.

Group discussed various strategies to deal. Talked about resource reservation and also soliciting more information from Course instructors about what resources they feel is appropriate for their major course assignments. Anthony volunteered to publish to group information about reserving resources for kernel and ssh.

Services Documentation

Currently there are multiple places where services are documented:

There is a SharePoint site:

There is a client services site: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/services

There is a twiki site (which maybe just the planning documentation for the client services site: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/CSCFServiceCatalog

There is old Infrastructure site: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/infrastructure/services

Infrastructure Apt Repository Documentation (didn't get to this item, bumped to next meeting)

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/internal/infrastructure/setups/OS/ubuntu/apt/