Quoting Dwight Engen (dwight.engen@xxxxxxxxxx): > On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:07:28 +0300 > Marian Marinov <mm@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 04/22/2014 11:05 PM, Richard Davies wrote: > > > Dwight Engen wrote: > > >> Richard Davies wrote: > > >>> Vladimir Davydov wrote: > > >>>> In short, kmem limiting for memory cgroups is currently broken. > > >>>> Do not use it. We are working on making it usable though. > > > ... > > >>> What is the best mechanism available today, until kmem limits > > >>> mature? > > >>> > > >>> RLIMIT_NPROC exists but is per-user, not per-container. > > >>> > > >>> Perhaps there is an up-to-date task counter patchset or similar? > > >> > > >> I updated Frederic's task counter patches and included Max > > >> Kellermann's fork limiter here: > > >> > > >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.containers/27212 > > >> > > >> I can send you a more recent patchset (against 3.13.10) if you > > >> would find it useful. > > > > > > Yes please, I would be interested in that. Ideally even against > > > 3.14.1 if you have that too. > > > > Dwight, do you have these patches in any public repo? > > > > I would like to test them also. > > Hi Marian, I put the patches against 3.13.11 and 3.14.1 up at: > > git://github.com/dwengen/linux.git cpuacct-task-limit-3.13 > git://github.com/dwengen/linux.git cpuacct-task-limit-3.14 Thanks, Dwight. FWIW I'm agreed with Tim, Dwight, Richard, and Marian that a task limit would be a proper cgroup extension, and specifically that approximating that with a kmem limit is not a reasonable substitute. -serge _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
