[systemd-devel] RFC: Cooperating in the cgroup tree

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Aug 18 16:39:43 PDT 2011


On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 01:25:16AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> I put together a short recommendations document explaining how
> applications making use of cgroups should try to behave in the cgroupfs
> trees. Since the trees are shared resources everybody should behave
> nicely and not muck with everybody else's cgroups.
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PaxControlGroups
> 
> I hope these rules are something everybody involved with cgroup client
> side management can agree to.
> 
> For now, I'd just like to ask for comments on this on this ML. I'll
> publish this on a wider scale later on.
> 
> So, is there anything I forgot? Anything you are missing on this list?
> Happy to hear your thoughts and ideas!

I think this looks like a good set of rules for app developers
to follow.

Regards,
Daniel
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