Hello, On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 07:05:41PM +0200, Michal Koutný wrote: > Currently, when pids.max limit is breached in the hierarchy, the event > is counted and reported in the cgroup where the forking task resides. > > This decouples the limit and the notification caused by the limit making > it hard to detect when the actual limit was effected. > > Let's introduce new events: > max > The number of times the limit of the cgroup was hit. > > max.imposed > The number of times fork failed in the cgroup because of self > or ancestor limit. The whole series make sense to me. I'm not sure about max.imposed field name. Maybe a name which clearly signfies rejection of forks would be clearer? Johannes, what do you think? Thanks. -- tejun