Linux: Cgroups Resource Limiting

This document describes the process of a basic installation of the arbiter2 tool, that can be used to apply CPU & Memory limits on logged-in Linux users, using cgroups accounting. The official documentation can be found at https://github.com/subfission/arbiter2/blob/master/INSTALL.md

Installing Python

$ sudo yum install python36 

Installing external modules

$ python3 -m ensurepip --default-pip
$ pip3 install matplotlib toml requests  # requests may not be necessary

Acquiring the Arbiter2 source files

$ sudo yum install git
$ git clone https://gitlab.chpc.utah.edu/arbiter2/arbiter2.git optional-destination-directory