Re: [RFC][PATCH][0/3] introduce rlimit cgroup

Hirofumi Nakagawa
2008-07-26T07:56:24Z

Hi,

Thank you for your comments.
I understand that.
I'll look for other approach for this.

thanks

> I understand that there might be some cases where it is useful to
> allow some process to set rlimits of other processes (e.g. some
> launcher process might want to control resources of all the
> applications being launched by it). But this has to be a very special
> case or this process needs to have special permission to do that
> otherwise there will be a lot of problems as a side effect.
>
> Ram
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:05 AM, Paul Menage <menage@google.com> wrote:
>>> To set rlimit from other processes is my original intention.
>>> For I do not see a way to do it, please let me know if there were any
>>> exists.
>> No, there's no way to do that currently. I'm not sure if it's
>> generally safe to update the rlimit for another process.
>>
>> If we're trying to use rlimits in a cgroup context then some rlimits
>> (e.g. max nice priority) ought to apply as additional caps on the
>> processes in the cgroup (e.g. if you set a max nice priority of 1 on a
>> cgroup, that ought to override any per-process settings) whereas
>> others (e.g. locked memory, open files, num processes) ought to apply
>> as an aggregate limit on the cgroup (so the sum of all open files
>> across the cgroup shouldn't be able to exceed the cgroup's "open
>> files" limit). E.g. see Balbir's memrlimit control groups patches that
>> are currently in -mm.
>>
>> What concrete problem are you trying to solve here?
>>
>> Paul
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