[lxc-devel] Fine grained resource control

Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezcano at free.fr
Tue Nov 9 17:52:49 UTC 2010


On 11/09/2010 05:40 PM, Sagar Dixit wrote:
> Thanks Daniel for reply. I'll go through directions of cgroup. I was just
> curious to know, what happens if I spawn 2 LXC containers, and load 1
> container with lots of CPU intensive processes causing it's CPU usage to
> exceed beyond some threshold which may lead to 'denial / delay of service'
> type of attack to processes on 2nd LXC container.  Whether this thing is
> possible at present ?
>    

Yes it is, except if you set an higher priority to the 2nd container.
I suppose some kind of load leveler has to be implemented on top of lxc 
to balance the load between the containers.




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