On Tue, 06 May 2014 14:40:55 +0300 Marian Marinov <mm@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/23/2014 03:49 PM, Dwight Engen wrote: > > 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 > > > Guys I tested the patches with 3.12.16. However I see a problem with > them. > > Trying to set the limit to a cgroup which already have processes in > it does not work: This is a similar check/limitation to the one for kmem in memcg, and is done here to keep the res_counters consistent and from going negative. It could probably be relaxed slightly by using res_counter_set_limit() instead, but you would still need to initially set a limit before adding tasks to the group. > [root@sp2 lxc]# echo 50 > cpuacct.task_limit > -bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy > [root@sp2 lxc]# echo 0 > cpuacct.task_limit > -bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy > [root@sp2 lxc]# > > I have even tried to remove this check: > + if (cgroup_task_count(cgrp) > || !list_empty(&cgrp->children)) > + return -EBUSY; > But still give me 'Device or resource busy'. > > Any pointers of why is this happening ? > > Marian > > >> Marian > >> > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >>> Richard. > >>> -- > >>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" > >>> in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" > > in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > > _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers