[Lxc-users] Packet forwarding performance drop with 1000 containers

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting Benoit Lourdelet (blourdel at juniper.net):
> Hello,
> 
> Working with 1000 containers I had already modified gc_thresh* to fit my
> needs.
> 
> By mistake I had set gc_interval to a too high value (past 2^32) , forcing
> linux to set gc_interval to the default value (30) with is not suitable in
> my case.
> 
> Setting gc_interval to 3600000 solved my problem.
> 
> Thanks for pointing me in the right direction

Thanks Benoit and Guido, that is very interesting!  Worth a FAQ entry
somewhere, but I'm not sure where.

-serge