Monthly Archives: January 2016

Containers – inspect, don’t introspect

Posted on January 20, 2016 by s3hh

You’ve got a whatzit daemon running in a VM. The VM starts acting suspiciously – a lot more cpu, memory, or i/o than you’d expect. What do you do? You could log in and look around. But if the VM’s … Continue reading

Cgroups are now handled a bit differently in Xenial

Posted on January 19, 2016 by s3hh

In the past, when you logged into an Ubuntu system, you would receive and be logged into a cgroup which you owned, one per controller (i.e. memory, freezer, etc). The main reason for this is so that unprivileged users can … Continue reading