linux-kernel - Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system

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Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:15:45 +1300
From:	Sam Vilain <sam@...ain.net>
To:	vatsa@...ibm.com
Cc:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>,
	ckrm-tech@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dev@...ru, xemul@...ru, pj@....com, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	winget@...gle.com, containers@...ts.osdl.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers
 on top of nsproxy!

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.

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