[Lxc-users] limiting RAM usage and disk space usage

[Gordon Henderson]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Trent W. Buck wrote:

> Siju George <sgeorge.ml at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 1) how do I limit the RAM usage of a container?
>
> In lxc.conf(5):
>
>    lxc.cgroup.memory.limit_in_bytes = 256M
>    lxc.cgroup.memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes = 1G
>
>> 2) how do I limit the disk usage of a container ?
>
> Ensure the rootfs is a dedicated filesystem (e.g. an LVM LV), and limit
> its size accordingly.

Finally, a use for LVM....

And here was me about to embark on using filesystems in files loopback 
mounted...

Gordon