Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] add nproc cgroup subsystem

Tejun Heo
2015-02-27T13:52:04Z

Hello,

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 02:46:13PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> just to make sure that I understand the big picture.
> The plan is to limit kernel memory per cgroup such that fork bombs and
> stuff cannot harm other groups of processes?

Yes, the kmem part of memcg hasn't really been functional because the
reclaim part was broken and (partially conseqently) kmem config being
siloed from the rest but we're very close to solving that at this
point.

Thanks.

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tejun