Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers on top of nsproxy!

Sam Vilain
2007-03-12T21:15:53Z

Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:56:43AM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>
>> What's wrong with that?
>>
>
> I had been asking around on "what is the fundamental unit of res mgmt
> for vservers" and the answer I got (from Herbert) was "all tasks that are
> in the same pid namespace". From what you are saying above, it seems to
> be that there is no such "fundamental" unit. It can be a random mixture
> of tasks (taken across vservers) whose resource consumption needs to be
> controlled. Is that correct?
>

Sure, for instance, all postgres processes across all servers might be
put in a different IO and buffercache use container by the system
administrator.

Sam.