lxc – .pQd's log

suddenly in-kernel communication between lxc containers gets erratic

2021-08-172021-08-20 by .pQd

we’re using LXC containers to host multiple workloads on the same physical servers. e.g. few instances of database servers running side-by-side. once in a while we end up with strange situation where tcp connections between containers running on the same physical server get torn down abruptly. in our case – this manifested e.g. by those ... Read More

lxc broken after upgrade from linux-image-4.12.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 to linux-image-4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64

2017-12-172017-12-17 by .pQd

lxc containers no longer start after i’ve upgraded debian stretch server from 4.12 kernel from stretch-backports repository to 4.13 also from backports. symptoms in /var/log/syslog: that was resolved by creating /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link with: via this comment. then there was nothing interesting in syslog but the lxc guest still would not start – lxc-start -F -n serverName ... Read More

lxc under debian: flood of “init: Id “4” respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes” in the syslog and large /var/log/wtmp

2014-09-232014-11-04 by .pQd

docker seems to be the new fad… which i don’t use at all; but i’m quite happy with lxc and have it deployed in the production on couple of servers.