[lxc-devel] Memory Resources

[Krzysztof Taraszka]

2009/8/24 Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano at fr.ibm.com>

> Krzysztof Taraszka wrote:
>
>> 2009/8/24 Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr>
>>
>>  Krzysztof Taraszka wrote:
>>>
>>>  2009/8/23 Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr>
>>>>
>>>> (...)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  With the lxc tools I did:
>>>>>
>>>>>      lxc-execute -n foo /bin/bash
>>>>>      echo 268435456 > /cgroup/foo/memory.limit_in_bytes
>>>>>      mount --bind /cgroup/foo/memory.meminfo /proc/meminfo
>>>>>      for i in $(seq 1 100); do sleep 3600 & done
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> (...)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  hmmm... I think that access to the cgroup inside container is very
>>>> risk
>>>> because I am able to manage for example memory resources (what if I am
>>>> not
>>>> the host owner and... I can give me via non-secure mounted /cgroup
>>>> (inside
>>>> container) all available memory resources...).
>>>> I think that the /proc/meminfo should be pass to the container in the
>>>> other
>>>> way, but this is the topic for the other thread.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  It is not a problem, I did it in this way because it's easy to test but
>>> in
>>> a real use case, the memory limit is setup by the lxc configuration file
>>> and
>>> the cgroup directory will be no longer accessible from the container.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> So.. how there will be another method (more secure) for giving
>> /proc/meminfo
>> with limits to the container, right?
>>
>
> Same method. The lxc tools can be configured with a fstab to mount more
> mount points, furthermore if memory.meminfo is available I will add the code
> to mount it automatically to /proc/meminfo in the lxc tools.
>


Hmm... setup_fs() from lxc_init.c or another way?

-- 
Krzysztof Taraszka
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