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

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 18:29 -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: 
> Quoting Gordon Henderson (gordon at drogon.net):
> > On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > 
> > > Quoting Gordon Henderson (gordon at drogon.net):
> > >> 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...
> > >
> > > That should also work, just a bit slower, right?
> > 
> > I don't know, really. I use loopback mounted filesystems for other things 
> > and I don't really notice much slowdowns compared to the native 
> > filesystem, but I've never benchmarked it.
> > 
> > It is some years since I looked at LVM and I wasn't impressed then so 
> > stopped thinking about it and used something else (I was looking at 
> > snapshot abilities at the time) I build systems for a purpose so rarely 
> > have the need to do the only thing LVM might be handy for - ie. resizing a 
> > volume so it just doesn't fgure in my systems, but maybe this is a valid 
> > use now.

> It seems to me that a little extension to lxc-create which creates
> the container inside a loopback fs would be pretty neat.

Wouldn't simply adding the rootfs to the fstab conf with the file system
image and the "-o loop" option do it?  I would think it would.  I
haven't tried it in lxc but I do it all the time just for general
mounting and day to day work.

> -serge

Regards,
Mike
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