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Subject: Re: [RFD] Merge task counter into memcg
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>> In short, I don't think it's better to have task-counting and fd-counting in memcg.
>> It's kmem, but it's more than that, I think.
>> Please provide subsys like ulimit.
>
> So, you think that while kmem would be enough to prevent fork-bombs,
> it would still make sense to limit in more traditional ways
> (ie. ulimit style object limits).  Hmmm....
>

I personally think this is namespaces business, not cgroups.
If you have a process namespace, an interface that works to limit the 
number of processes should keep working given the constraints you are 
given.

What doesn't make sense, is to create a *new* interface to limit 
something that doesn't really need to be limited, just because you
limited a similar resource before.