Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:59:38 +0100 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com>, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Arch <arch@freebsd.org>, "ticso@cicely.de" <ticso@cicely.de>, "gnn@freebsd.org" <gnn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Protect inetd and cron from being killed under high-pressure swapping Message-ID: <CD5E7D77-6D17-40C3-97CB-4E0FA880F689@80386.nl> In-Reply-To: <4B0D65FE.9020603@elischer.org> References: <3bbf2fe10911160702m3641b65cv15ac2942cbb023fd@mail.gmail.com> <7i8we5xlbm.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <30DCA579-53AD-49EA-A5A2-5A0796A285C1@gmail.com> <20091120062637.GA49534@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20091125144208.GZ20716@cicely7.cicely.de> <4B0D65FE.9020603@elischer.org>
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That would be very useful. That would allow us to run gettys inside jails as well. -- Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> (from iPod) WWW: http://80386.nl/ On 25 nov 2009, at 18:14, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote: > Bernd Walter wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 05:26:37PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >>> On 2009-Nov-17 21:35:34 +0000, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:02:08 +0100, >>>>> Attilio Rao wrote: >>>>>> This simple patch protects inetd and cron from being killed under >>>>>> high-pressure swapping systems: >>>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/~attilio/Sandvine/STABLE_8/madvised/madvised.diff >>>> Yes, the idea is good, but should we really trust inetd and crond >>>> that much ? >>>> Are there other daemons that do this? >>> As an alternative approach, how about placing a wrapper process >>> around >>> them which will restart them if they die? init(8) unofficially >>> provides >>> this (I've used it in the past) - maybe we should formalise this. >> init(8) is nice, but not an option within jails. > > we are considering whether a jail should have its own init... > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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