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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 18:48:09 +0100
From: Max Kellermann <mk@cm4all.com>
To: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] new cgroup controller "fork"
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On 2011/11/03 18:26, Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> wrote:
> On 11/03/2011 03:16 PM, Max Kellermann wrote:
> >but is different from my controller.
> >
> How so?

Once the "remaining" counter has reached zero, no further forks are
possible, no matter how many processes are left.  It is a fork
counter, not a process counter.

Let's say: Frederic's controller counts "things" that exists
(processes), and my controller counts "verbs" or "ations" (fork()).

Max