On Mon 15-07-13 14:49:40, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 08:38:38PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Fri 28-06-13 14:01:55, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 05:05:13PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > [...] > > > > OK, so libcgroup's rules daemon will still work and place my tasks in > > > > appropriate cgroups? > > > > > > Do you use that daemon in practice? > > > > I am not but my users do. And that is why I care. > > Michael, > > would you have more details of how those users are exactly using > rules engine daemon.
The most common usage is uid and exec names. > To me rulesengined processed 3 kinds of rules. > > - uid based > - gid based > - exec file path based > > uid/gid based rule exection can be taken care by pam_cgroup module too. > So I think one should not need cgrulesengined for that. I am not familiar with pam_cgroup much but it is a part of libcgroup package, right? > I am curious what kind of exec rules are useful. Any placement of > services one can do using systemd. So only executables we are left > to manage are which are not services. Yes, those are usually backup processes which should not disrupt the regular server workload. uid ones are used to keep a leash on local users of the machine but i do not have many details as I usually do not have access to those machines. All I see are complains when something explodes ;) -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
