On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:58:25 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Or at least that *someone* is > > doing so and can perhaps document how all of these knobs interact. > > After all, if they are going to be separate, and someone turns the I/O > > throttling knob without bothering to turn the write throttling knob > > --- what's going to happen? An OOM? That's not going to be very safe > > or friendly for the sysadmin who plans to be configuring the system. > > ... this problem. > Considering that low-io-limit cgroup as very slow device, the problem itself is not far from that the current kernel has. If per-bdi-dirty-ratio works well, we can write per-cgroup-dirty-ratio, I think. (I'll do if I find time.) But yes, configuration-how-to should be documented, finally. I hope sysadmins will not use some acrobatic configuration ;) Thanks, -Kame _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
