Bug 466036 - RFE: memory resource controller not enabled in kernel
Summary: RFE: memory resource controller not enabled in kernel
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-07 20:24 UTC by Daniel Qarras
Modified: 2009-02-28 19:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-02-28 19:11:58 UTC
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Description Daniel Qarras 2008-10-07 20:24:27 UTC 
Description of problem:
The kernel is not configured CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR thus making memory resource controller usage impossible. Please enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.27-0.398.rc9.fc10.i686
Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2008-10-08 17:38:23 UTC 
I don't think we can enable the memory resource controller this close to release. All of the testing so far has been without it enabled.
Comment 2 Daniel Qarras 2008-10-17 16:10:07 UTC 
Thanks for the additional info. This is might wrong place to start this discussion but closely related to this is missing support for RSS ulimit enforcement. Currently, setting RSS ulimit has no effect at all and I doubt just by enabling CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR would make it work.

FWIW, some patches for that have been floating around in the past:

http://lwn.net/Articles/96859/
Comment 3 Chuck Ebbert 2009-02-28 19:11:58 UTC 
CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR is now enabled in F11 rawhide.
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