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Comment 2 for bug 796993

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Steve Conklin (sconklin) wrote :

Here's the text from the commit which removed the option.

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commit 0bb7b112c68d24e0f783d568fe1c31a7c1dc6c4e
Author: Stefan Bader <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Mar 29 19:26:56 2011 +0200

    UBUNTU: (config) Disable CONFIG_NET_NS

    BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720095

    While network namespaces are used for containers, the implementation was
    still experimental in Lucid. Even worse the cleanup of network
    namespaces is very slow. This can cause severe memory issues when an
    application uses them a lot (for example when cloning subprocesses).

    The problem can only be avoided by backporting several upstream patches
    (and without even more changes that will slow down the creation of new
    net namespaces). This cannot really be justified as a stable update.

    So turn the option off in Lucid. Users of containers should be pointed
    to the LTS-backport kernel.

    Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <email address hidden>
    Acked-by: Brad Figg <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <email address hidden>