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Documentation / namespaces / resource-control.txt


Based on kernel version 4.16.1. Page generated on 2018-04-09 11:53 EST.

1	There are a lot of kinds of objects in the kernel that don't have
2	individual limits or that have limits that are ineffective when a set
3	of processes is allowed to switch user ids.  With user namespaces
4	enabled in a kernel for people who don't trust their users or their
5	users programs to play nice this problems becomes more acute.
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7	Therefore it is recommended that memory control groups be enabled in
8	kernels that enable user namespaces, and it is further recommended
9	that userspace configure memory control groups to limit how much
10	memory user's they don't trust to play nice can use.
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12	Memory control groups can be configured by installing the libcgroup
13	package present on most distros editing /etc/cgrules.conf,
14	/etc/cgconfig.conf and setting up libpam-cgroup.
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