1 =================================
2 Documentation for /proc/sys/user/
3 =================================
7 Copyright (c) 2016 Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
11 This file contains the documentation for the sysctl files in
14 The files in this directory can be used to override the default
15 limits on the number of namespaces and other objects that have
16 per user per user namespace limits.
18 The primary purpose of these limits is to stop programs that
19 malfunction and attempt to create a ridiculous number of objects,
20 before the malfunction becomes a system wide problem. It is the
21 intention that the defaults of these limits are set high enough that
22 no program in normal operation should run into these limits.
24 The creation of per user per user namespace objects are charged to
25 the user in the user namespace who created the object and
26 verified to be below the per user limit in that user namespace.
28 The creation of objects is also charged to all of the users
29 who created user namespaces the creation of the object happens
30 in (user namespaces can be nested) and verified to be below the per user
31 limits in the user namespaces of those users.
33 This recursive counting of created objects ensures that creating a
34 user namespace does not allow a user to escape their current limits.
36 Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/user:
41 The maximum number of cgroup namespaces that any user in the current
42 user namespace may create.
47 The maximum number of ipc namespaces that any user in the current
48 user namespace may create.
53 The maximum number of mount namespaces that any user in the current
54 user namespace may create.
59 The maximum number of network namespaces that any user in the
60 current user namespace may create.
65 The maximum number of pid namespaces that any user in the current
66 user namespace may create.
71 The maximum number of time namespaces that any user in the current
72 user namespace may create.
77 The maximum number of user namespaces that any user in the current
78 user namespace may create.
83 The maximum number of user namespaces that any user in the current
84 user namespace may create.