[lxc-users] Overcommit and kernel isolation

Bertrand Paquet bertrand.paquet at gmail.com
Thu Oct 9 08:22:40 UTC 2014


Ok. Thx you for information.

It's very very dangerous :(

Bertrand

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Tamas Papp <tompos at martos.bme.hu> wrote:

>
> On 10/09/2014 10:07 AM, Bertrand Paquet wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>  I have noticed that changing the overcommit
> (/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory) mode inside a container change the
> overcommit mode of the host. Is it normal ?
>
>  For /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax, the value seems to be local to the
> container.
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Bertrand
>
>  PS : my LXC version : 1.0.1
>
>
> Without apparmor, selinux or other restictions and privileged containers
> yes, it is.
> AFAIK there is no namespace for that.
>
> tamas
>
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