Hi Evgeni, On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 11:45:07AM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: > > Attached is a patch for lxc that configures this sysctl setting to a higher > > value. I don't know if this is the "Debian way" or if some other solution > > is preferred. > > Your patch looks quite similar to what was added in LXD in Ubuntu recently: > > https://github.com/lxc/lxd-pkg-ubuntu/commit/333e2671a91861b949a2b990459656a3b065e5fb > https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju/+bug/1602192
Ah, indeed, I had found the launchpad bug but not the patch. > I think we also should add something like > sysctl -q -p /etc/sysctl.d/lxc.conf || true > to the configure target of postinst, to actually load the file directly, > instead of waiting for a reboot? Good idea! > However, I am not 100% sure that packages should alter sysctl settings without > telling the admin. Well, that was the meaning of my question about the "Debian way" :) The only two packages I found doing this are bit-babbler and ufw, so it does not exactly seem like a widespread practice. Baptiste
