[lxc-devel] LXC fails to allocate memory

[Federico Alves]

I get have 500 containers and wrote a script to start them one by one.
After each is started I do a
"free -g" and continue.
After 150 containers are started, the whole machine dies and needs to be
powered off

Started 150
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache
available
Mem:            251          39         183           0          28
202
Swap:            17           0          17
lxc-start: monitor.c: lxc_monitord_spawn: 312 Cannot allocate memory -
failed to fork
lxc-start: lxccontainer.c: do_lxcapi_start: 714 Cannot allocate memory -
Error doing dual-fork
lxc-start: lxc_start.c: main: 344 The container failed to start.
lxc-start: lxc_start.c: main: 346 To get more details, run the container in
foreground mode.
lxc-start: lxc_start.c: main: 348 Additional information can be obtained by
setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
lxc-start: lxc_start.c: main: 344 The container failed to start.
lxc-start: lxc_start.c: main: 346 To get more details, run the container in
foreground mode.
lxc-start: lxc_start.c: main: 348 Additional information can be obtained by
setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
Started 151

at the end
bash: fork: Cannot allocate memory
[root at skype src]#
Broadcast message from systemd-journald at skype (Fri 2015-07-03 08:53:25 EDT):

systemd[1]: Caught <ABRT>, cannot fork for core dump: Cannot allocate memory


Broadcast message from systemd-journald at skype (Fri 2015-07-03 08:53:25 EDT):

systemd[1]: Freezing execution.
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