Does anyone know what the license on this code is?  That is the
user_beancounter code.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Sladen [mailto:vserver@;paul.sladen.org]
> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 4:42 PM
> To: VServer Patch List
> Subject: Re: [vserver] S_CAPS
> 
> On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Jean-Philippe Toupin wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I'm a newbie to vserver and I still wondering what is S_CAPS. I know it
> > is used to limit some ressources but what can it limit ?
> 
> The Capabality to do certain things (like configure ethernet devices, make
> device nods), many of which are disabled within a vserver because they
> relate to hardware or kernel access and therefore would be unsafe to pass
> onto the root user in a vserver.
> 
> > Can you limit the memory usage or cpu usage ?
> 
> Nope.  Not at the moment.
> 
> You can set the `nice' value for the vserver compared to other vservers by
> setting:
> 
>   S_NICE=""
> 
> and setting:
> 
>   S_FLAGS="... sched"
> 
> Open files and core-size can be limited with the `ULIMIT' line.
> The User beancounter patch may be a possibility for some other stuff too:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.sw.com.sg/pub/Linux/people/saw/kernel/user_beancounter/
> 
> > I can't find the include/linux/capability.h file in the
> > kernel-2.4.19ctx-14.tar.gz tarball.
> 
>   find /usr/src/linux/ -name capability.h
> 
>       -Paul
> --
> Nottingham, GB
> 
> 

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