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Re:Baseimage-docker, fat containers and “treating containers... by kesor on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @08:30PM (#9580300)
Apparently Docker are aware of this problem, but putting a huge Python init process in there is just evil.

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/11529

And the problem appears in such edge cases that it is doubtfully worthy of so much attention. When a pid-1 process spawns daemons, that in turn leave orphaned zombies - this pid-1 will get assigned with them. (described in 'man 7 pid_namespaces')

Supposedly this non-init pid1 is not reaping orphaned zombies, which might get the namespace to pid_max (33k default) and run out of pids to use.

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