Re: user- vs kernel-level resource sandbox for Linux?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Nov 30 2004 - 15:08:36 EST


On Maw, 2004-11-30 at 02:39, Marek Habersack wrote:
> per-process isn't enough. I specifically need something to limit the memory
> usage on a more global scale - per user ID or per process group or a similar
> way of grouping related processes. That's the only way to tame processes
> like apache. At this point the option I'm considering is Xen, unless I can
> find a userland solution to the problem...

I'd suggest playing with Xen - its very efficient and it really does
come close to perfect constraint for resources.
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