Re: Q: using cgroups in real life

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>]

On Wed 14-11-12 14:54:30, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have a question on cgroups (as of Linux 3.0):
> The concept is to mount a filesystem, and configure cgroups through
> it. This implies that all the files belong to root (or maybe some
> other fixed user).

Have a look at libcgroup package - cgconfig in particular.

> AFAIK, you can chmod() and chown() files, but these bits are only kept
> in the i-node cache, so they may change at any time.

Not true they will live with the files

> I think this is bad, because if you want to allow users to limit
> (maybe memory usage) by using some predefined cgroup, the user
> needs at least partial write access to that cgroup (to add the
> PID). Probably this also means the user could add any PID (even those
> processes not owned by him).

man cgconfig.conf

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I would suggest asking this kind of questions at libcgroup
libcg-devel@lists.sourceforge.net mailing list as it is more focused on
the cgroups usage.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs