On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:15:16PM -0800, Martin Fick wrote: > --- Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote: > > > > mainline goes for the heavier process virtualization > > instead of isolation ... > > Could you explain what you mean by that? mainline in general heads for the straight and complete virtualization approach, they do not bother with performant isolation and corner cases (yet) > Are you talking about the recent "PID Namespaces" work > in the mainline? (bottom of this page:) > http://lwn.net/Articles/258703/ yep, precisely > Is this something that is much heavier (I realize it > is potentially more featureful) than the vserver > technique? nah, not _that_ much heavier, but, in certain cases too heavy compared to what Linux-VServer is doing. for example, consider 1000 guests with a single daemon running inside, on mainline that would give 2000 processes (init + daemon) while we can do with only 1001 processes (single shared init) > Now that the mainline has this support, > would it not make sense, > is it possible to use it even for the vserver project? yes, and we are providing this in _addition_ to the process isolation, as alternative ... so the choice (which one you prefer) is yours best, Herbert > -Martin > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ