* Linus Walleij <triad@xxxxxxxxx> [2008-12-08 23:08:51]: > mån 2008-12-08 klockan 07:45 -0800 skrev John Reiser: > > > > [Please] enable the memory controller for F11. > > > > Please give a URL to a description of what it does, > > Memory controllers rock: > http://lxr.linux.no/linux/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt > Thanks! Good to know > Lots of links there in the end. > > On servers memory cgroups taken together with the existing CPU slicing > cgroups and affinity cgroups enables the same stuff that Solaris "zones" > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_Containers) does, more or less, > but actually better because it's more fine-grained and doesn't need you > to configure an entire virtual machine. > > Instead of limiting this one virtual machine, the cgroups features make > it possible to limit this one group of processes, without any > virtualization overhead. I guess you could combine it with User Mode > Linux if you want real, constrained virtualization. > > cgroups are really a core killer feature in Linux, just that the rest of > the world doesn't quite know yet, nor do userspace know quite how to > handle all the nice cgroups, but much is happening right now. > Yes a core killer feature and we have libcgroup to help program/control from userspace. We already the package in F10. > Even if servers is what most cgroup authors probably have in mind, they > are equally useful to desktops and embedded systems. -- Balbir -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
