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Re: cgroups memory subsystem



On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 11:31 +0100, Patrick Westphal wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> 
> I'm just playing around with lxc and cgroups wondering why the memory
> subsystem is disabled in the 2.6.32 kernel.
> 
> Is there a reason for having it switched off? And what about future
> versions?

If enabled, it makes some kernel operations significantly slower.  We
may patch the kernel to make it built-in but disabled by default.  I
have an item on my task list to test whether this also makes the kernel
slower.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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