[Lxc-users] lxc.cgroup.memory.limit_in_bytes has no effect

[Ulli Horlacher]

On Tue 2011-05-17 (09:10), Daniel Lezcano wrote:

> > Why can a container process allocate more than 1 GB of memory if there is
> > 512 MB limit?
> 
> When a process reaches the memory limit size then the container will 
> begin to swap. This is not really what we want as 

Oh... no!


> In order to disable the swap, you have to set the 
> memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes = memory.limit_in_bytes.

Thanks! This does the trick!

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