[Devel] Re: [lxc-devel] Memory Resources

[Daniel Lezcano]

Krzysztof Taraszka wrote:
> 2009/8/23 Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr>
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>> With the lxc tools I did:
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>>        lxc-execute -n foo /bin/bash
>>        echo 268435456 > /cgroup/foo/memory.limit_in_bytes
>>        mount --bind /cgroup/foo/memory.meminfo /proc/meminfo
>>        for i in $(seq 1 100); do sleep 3600 & done
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> hmmm... I think that access to the cgroup inside container is very risk
> because I am able to manage for example memory resources (what if I am not
> the host owner and... I can give me via non-secure mounted /cgroup (inside
> container) all available memory resources...).
> I think that the /proc/meminfo should be pass to the container in the other
> way, but this is the topic for the other thread.
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It is not a problem, I did it in this way because it's easy to test but 
in a real use case, the memory limit is setup by the lxc configuration 
file and the cgroup directory will be no longer accessible from the 
container.
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