Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:47:20 -0400 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] cgroups: add a pids subsystem |
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:13:48AM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > I did not necessarily word this very clearly. What I meant is that > /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max is essentially an external limiting factor that > caps the total number of pids that can be under the root cgroup and it's > children, not that the cgroup in any way payed attention to it. It might be > useful to be able to just disable the sysctl option and set the value > through the root cgroup, solely or consistency, although such usage isn't > something I would consider essential in any way.
Unless there's a compelling reason to implement it, I don't think it's a good idea to add it. The reasons against it have been mentioned a couple times in the thread and AFAICS none is being refuted.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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