+ cgroups mailing list + cgroup maintainers On 02/17/2017 10:37 AM, Łukasz Stelmach wrote: > Hi, > > We need to limit and monitor the number of file descriptors processes > keep open. If a process exceeds certain limit we'd like to terminate it > and restart it or reboot the whole system. Currently the RLIMIT API > allows limiting the number of file descriptors but to achieve our goals > we'd need to make sure all programmes we run handle EMFILE errno > properly. That is why we consider developing a cgroup controller that > limits the number of open file descriptors of its members (similar to > memory controler). > > Any comments? Is there any alternative that: > > + does not require modifications of user-land code, > + enables other process (e.g. init) to be notified and apply policy. > > Kind regards, > -- Krzysztof Opasiak Samsung R&D Institute Poland Samsung Electronics -- 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
