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 > >
