[lxc-devel] Fine grained resource control

Jue Hong honshj at gmail.com
Tue Nov 16 10:27:20 UTC 2010


Hi Daniel, Sagar's post reminds me of another question.

Is there any plan to provide lxc with the ability of controlling some
more fine-grained resources, e.g. the number of process, fd, etc.?

Cheers!

Jason Hong

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr> wrote:
> 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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