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From: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
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On Thu, 01.03.12 23:04, Mike Galbraith (efault@gmx.de) wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 16:02 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: 
> > On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:26:43PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
> > > Q: you say systemd requires CONFIG_CGROUPS=y.  Why is that?  It's taking
> > > over sysvinits job afaiui, what does that have to do with cgroups?
> > 
> > I think they were using it to track all the children forked by a service
> > and cleanup all of them if need be. So they just need it for logical
> > grouping functionality and don't require any controllers as such.
> 
> Hm.  Controllers are perhaps not required, but cpu controller was
> configured and used without consent.  I didn't receive an offer.

Just set DefaultControllers= in /etc/systemd/system.conf to an empty
string and systemd will not make use of any hierarchy beyond its private
name=systemd named hierarchy.

Lennart

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