[Devel] Re: BC: resource beancounters (v2)

[Alan Cox]

Ar Maw, 2006-08-29 am 10:30 -0700, ysgrifennodd Rohit Seth:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 11:15 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Ar Llu, 2006-08-28 am 15:28 -0700, ysgrifennodd Rohit Seth:
> > > Though if we have file/directory based accounting then shared pages
> > > belonging to /usr/lib or /usr/bin can go to a common container.
> > 
> > So that one user can map all the spare libraries and config files and
> > DoS the system by preventing people from accessing the libraries they do
> > need ?
> > 
> 
> Well, there is a risk whenever there is sharing across containers. The
> point though is, give the choice to sysadmin to configure the platform
> the way it is appropriate.

In other words your suggestion doesn't actually work for the real world
cases like web serving.