Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] cgroups: add a pids subsystem

Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-03-12T15:35:53Z

On 2015-03-11 22:28, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
>> I did not necessarily word this very clearly. What I meant is that
>> /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max is essentially an external limiting factor that
>> caps the total number of pids that can be under the root cgroup and it's
>> children, not that the cgroup in any way payed attention to it. It might be
>> useful to be able to just disable the sysctl option and set the value
>> through the root cgroup, solely or consistency, although such usage isn't
>> something I would consider essential in any way.
>
> Maybe this is something that can be reviewed as a separate patchset to this
> one? I'd much prefer that we actually get per-cgroup process limiting merged
> first, then deal with such features separately.
My thought exactly.