Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>It can be done trivially without performing any IO or swap, yes. > > > Please give me a rough sketch of how to do so. Reading sparse files is just one I had in mind. But I'm not very creative compared to university students doing their assignments. > Or is this about DOS'ing the system by getting the kernel to allocate > a large number of data structures (struct file, struct inode, or the like)? That works too. And I don't believe hand-accounting and limiting all these things individually as a means to limit RAM usage is sane, when you have a much more comprehensive and relatively unintrusive page level scheme. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
