From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza>
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Haitao Huang <haitao.huang@linux.intel.com>,
Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh.babulal@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] tracking fd counts per cgroup
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 08:44:48 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZU0ooOGzXJfa5Zz0@slm.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231108002647.73784-1-tycho@tycho.pizza>
Hello,
On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 05:26:41PM -0700, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> At Netflix, we have a "canary" framework that will run test versions of
> an application and automatically detect anomalies in various metrics. We
> also have two "fleets", one full of virtual machines, and one that is a
> multi-tenant container environment.
>
> On our full-VM fleet, one of the metrics we analyze is the number of open file
> descriptors, from /proc/sys/fs/file-nr. However, no equivalent exists for the
> multi-tenant container fleet, which has lead to several production issues.
>
> This idea is not new of course [1], but hopefully the existence of the new misc
> cgroup will make it more tenable.
>
> I'm not really tied to any of the semantics in this series (e.g. threads could
> be double counted even with a shared table), and am open to implementing this
> in other ways if it makes more sense.
As already raised by Christian, if the goal is monitoring, you should be
able to do that easily with BPF.
Thanks.
--
tejun
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-09 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-08 0:26 [RFC 0/6] tracking fd counts per cgroup Tycho Andersen
2023-11-08 0:26 ` [RFC 1/6] fs: count_open_files() -> count_possible_open_files() Tycho Andersen
2023-11-08 0:26 ` [RFC 2/6] fs: introduce count_open_files() Tycho Andersen
2023-11-08 0:26 ` [RFC 3/6] misc: introduce misc_cg_charge() Tycho Andersen
2023-11-08 0:26 ` [RFC 4/6] misc cgroup: introduce an fd counter Tycho Andersen
2023-11-08 16:57 ` Al Viro
2023-11-08 21:01 ` Tycho Andersen
2023-11-09 9:53 ` Christian Brauner
2023-11-09 14:58 ` Tycho Andersen
2023-11-08 0:26 ` [RFC 5/6] selftests/cgroup: add a flags arg to clone_into_cgroup() Tycho Andersen
2023-11-08 0:26 ` [RFC 6/6] selftests/cgroup: add a test for misc cgroup Tycho Andersen
2023-11-09 18:44 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
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