Re: [RFC PATCH] memcg: export knobs for the defaul cgroup hierarchy

[Tejun Heo]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 04:03:32PM +0400, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> I think it's all about how we're going to use memory cgroups. If we're
> going to use them for application containers, there's simply no such
> problem, because we only want to isolate a potentially dangerous process
> group from the rest of the system. If we want to start a fully
> virtualized OS inside a container, then we certainly need a kind of

For shell environments, ulimit is a much better specific protection
mechanism against fork bombs and process-granular OOM killers would
behave mostly equivalently during fork bombing to the way it'd behave
in the host environment w/o cgroups.  I'm having a hard time seeing
why this would need any special treatment from cgroups.

Thanks.

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tejun
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