[Lxc-users] Many containers and too many open files

[Trent W. Buck]

Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr> writes:

> I was using dnsmasq as a dns and a dhcp server and sending the
> hostname as an identifier for the dhcp protocol, so I was able to
> reach the container without taking care of the ip address / mac
> address. But I noticed dnsmasq was collapsing and taking a very long
> time before sending an ip address after ~ 600 containers.

This interests me: do you attribute it to scalability issues in dnsmasq?
I use it heavily in /24 networks (i.e. <254 hosts), and it'd be good to
know in advance if it won't handle a /16 network.