[systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Ignore OOMScoreAdjust in Linux containers

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 11.04.14 02:23, Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 09.04.14 19:39, Richard Weinberger (richard at nod.at) wrote:
> 
> > I'm also fine with ignoring OOMScoreAdjust if it fails.
> > All I want is a painless Linux userspace on top of systemd within
> > my Containers. :-)
> 
> It appears to me as if this should just result in a debug message that
> the oom score couldn't be changed, and we should then proceed. After all
> this isn't really security sensitive property, this is just and attempt
> to make a fucked up situation (which OOM is) slightly less fucked up.

What is the precise error that is returned by the kernel inside such a
container? EPERM? If so, I'd recommend logging at DEBUG level if EPERM,
and at WARN if any other error, but still proceed in any case.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat