On Tue, 8 Aug 2017 11:11:20 +0200 Jaromil <jaro...@dyne.org> wrote:
> what I bring home after reading this is the idea of a supervisor that > manages cgroups and LXC containers in a simple way and, to inherit > some standardised work being done in systemd, supports its service > units. Be careful recommending cgroups. I've never used them, and know little about them, but I know they were one of the main excuses for systemd. Look on Wikipedia's cgroups page. In the beginning, Google needed a way to throttle and account for resources of whole groups of processes, so Paul Menage and Rohit Seth wrote cgroups and got it into the kernel in January 2008, at which time it was a feature invisible to all but those engaging in Google-scale useages. In 2013[2] a Red Hat guy[1] named Tejun Heo began rewriting and redesigning cgroups.[3] The diagram on the cgroups Wikipedia page sports diagrams just like systemd diagrams, and notes that FreeDesktop.Org is involved in this kernel feature. Then there's this: =============================================== Under former Red Hat Linux kernel developer and a principal software engineer Tejun Heo’s stewardship, cgroups underwent a massive redesign, replacing multiple, per-controller cgroup hierarchies with a “single kernel cgroup hierarchy… [that] allow[s] controllers to be individually enabled for each cgroup” and is the “private property of systemd.” These changes, especially when combined with functionality in systemd, increased the consistency and manageability of cgroups. =============================================== [4] "Especially when combined with the functionality in systemd." Did Heo et-al make cgroups harder to use without systemd? I don't know. But I look at the timing, the complete rewrite throwing away the old code, the involvement of Redhat and FreeDesktop.Org, and I can't help thinking I've seen this movie before. At this point we might be doing ourselves a disservice by thinking an interaction with cgroups is an advantage of a given init. SteveT [1] https://www.linux.com/news/linux-kernel-developer-work-spaces-video-tejun-heo-red-hat [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups#Versions [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups#Versions [4] http://rhelblog.redhat.com/2015/08/28/the-history-of-containers/ Steve Litt July 2017 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
