Hi Harald, > I am running lxc 2.0.9 on Stretch. The (privileged) container > runs Oracle Linux 7.4. Problem: I get some very restricted > ulimits in the container (e.g. nofile hard 8192), even though > the limits for root and "*" on the host are set to much higher > values. On the host the limits are fine. > > If I set the expected limits in lxc1:/etc/security/limits.d/\ > local.conf, then ssh to this container fails. ssh just says > "Connection closed", exit value is 254. So apparently setting > the limits in the container is not an option. > > Is there some way to get around this mess? I saw that lxc 2.1 > provides new lxc.prlimit config options, but AFAIU *privileged* > containers should inherit the limits and shoud be fine with a > local limits.conf.
did you try to increase the limits via ulimit before starting the container? At least, this works with unpriviledged containers... Best regards Dirk -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61 / 85435 Erding | | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | d...@geschke-online.de / d...@lug-erding.de / kont...@lug-erding.de | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ lxc-users mailing list lxc-users@lists.linuxcontainers.org http://lists.linuxcontainers.org/listinfo/lxc-users