Hi, I'm currently dealing with a pool of LXC containers which I use for sand-boxing purposes. Sometimes, when re-creating one of the containers in the pool I obtain the following error:
Error: "CREATE CONTAINER container-5\ndebootstrap is /usr/sbin/debootstrap\nCache repository is busy.\nfailed to install ubuntu natty ... My interpretation of the problem is that rebooting several containers at the same time can be problematic - e.g. because they are trying to access the cache repository at the same time -. Assuming my interpretation is correct, is there a way to create multiple containers at the same time? Also, the creation time for the first container is pretty high (~8 minutes), because it seems to download all required packages. After that, once the packages are cached, creating a new container is a much faster process (~30 sec). Still, that's quite a lot of time. I'm wondering if there is a way to lower this creation time even further. The reason I have a pool of LXC containers and I re-create them continuously is that I need the containers to run untrusted code, coming in the form of "jobs". This code can potentially have destructive effects on the containers, making them unusable for further job processing, which is the reason why I re-create the containers after each job submission. What I would love to do is to setup a "base" container which contains the OS and the required packages (the common part) and to create several - customizable - instances of this container. When I say "customizable" I mean that I should be able to specify a port number which a server running inside one of the containers should listen to and this number should be different per each container. Would this be feasible via LXC? Any suggestion on how to achieve this? Cheers, Roberto Aloi --- Twitter: @robertoaloi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
