On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:47:35AM +0100, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote: > Herbert Poetzl wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 02:05:30PM +0100, william Famy wrote: > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>Hash: SHA1 > >> > >>To begin with Happy new year to every vserver guy. > > > >and a happy new year to you too ... > > > >>I have to extand the shmmax for my guest but I do not manage to do it. > >> > >>cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax > >>134217728 > >>I have tried the /etc/vserver/host/rlimits > >>I have tried to add bcapability > >>but I do not manage to go ahead with it. > >> > >>I've run under 2.6.19.1 with the last devel vserver patch under > >>debian etch as host. > >> > >>Could somebody tell me how to modify the guest config to execute > >>"echo 134217728 /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax " for my guest.
> >as 2.6.19.x incorporates the mainline namespace > >stuff, you have to set those values from one of > >the early guest startup script (e.g. prepre-start) > >while you still have 'enough' capabilities ... > I assume this requires the IPC namespace to be created? > That doesn't happen until the context is created, so none of > the scripts would work for this particular problem. hmm, isn't the context supposed to exist in the post-start script? if not, please could you once and for all clarify which script is started when and in what context(s)? > Having a non-executable one that does something like > VSERVER_EXTRA_CMDS=( $_CHAINECHO /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax 134217728 ) > is probably the only way to make it happen (with current tools). okay, any plans to allow for such support? > >also using the sysctl interface instead of the > >deprecated procfs one (which might as well be > >hidden away :) is advised ... > > > >maybe special tool support will be added soon, > >so please double check with the tool maintainers > > I guess some nicer way to support it would be required, > especially as more of these settings become available. what do you have in mind ... please share your thoughts, as I think those settings _might_ become essential for certain setups ... TIA, Herbert > >HTH, > >Herbert > > > >>Thanks for any help. > > -- > Daniel Hokka Zakrisson > GPG id: 06723412 > GPG fingerprint: A455 4DF3 990A 431F FECA 7947 6136 DDA2 0672 3412 > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
