On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:13:48AM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > I did not necessarily word this very clearly. What I meant is that > /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max is essentially an external limiting factor that > caps the total number of pids that can be under the root cgroup and it's > children, not that the cgroup in any way payed attention to it. It might be > useful to be able to just disable the sysctl option and set the value > through the root cgroup, solely or consistency, although such usage isn't > something I would consider essential in any way. Unless there's a compelling reason to implement it, I don't think it's a good idea to add it. The reasons against it have been mentioned a couple times in the thread and AFAICS none is being refuted. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
