Bug#834540: RFA: cgmanager -- Central cgroup manager daemon
On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 12:20:24AM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> * Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> [200905 22:19]:
> > On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 04:47:17PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 15:26:46 -0500 "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
> > > wrote:
> > For what it's worth, we had retired cgmanager upstream, but I'm now
> > considering either picking it back up, or actually starting from scratch
> > (mainly to drop the 'libnih' dependency which is pretty problematic)
>
> Apparently the upstream repository is now marked as "Archived".
>
> > > There is elogind [1], which is a standalone logind implementation which
> > > doesn't require systemd-shim and cgmanager.
> > > This might be an alternative approach to provide the logind interfaces
> > > under sysvinit.
>
> elogind seems to be in Debian now.
>
>
> Serge, what's the current upstream status, or would it make more
> sense to RM cgmanager now?
Hi,
the main problem with cgmanager was that it was based on libnih and
so inherited it's penchant for using select(), so it was easy to make
it crash by running out of selectable fds.
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