Re: Challenge: Find potential use cases for non-trivial confinement

[Bas Wijnen]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:42:21AM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> Scribit Marcus Brinkmann dies 30/04/2006 hora 23:17:
> > Propose a use case for non-trivial confinement.
> 
> As the program needs significant CPU usage and the teacher has not
> enough CPU quota on the faculty's system to give it away to it's many
> students, the program cannot run as an advertised service in the
> teacher's session, but instead has to be run with CPU usage of each
> student.
> 
> For the same reason applied to the faculty or each student, the program
> cannot run as an advertised service with CPU quota given especially by
> the faculty or taken from the students collectively.

This situation needs better system administration, not non-trivial
confinement.  These extra requirements are not realistic.  The owner of the
computer (the faculty) wants things to work.  "We cannot touch the quota" is
not a valid argument.

Thanks,
Bas

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