[Lxc-users] Output of 'top' with lxc.cgroup.memory.limit_in_bytes set?

[Gordon Henderson]

On Sun, 22 May 2011, Gordon Henderson wrote:

>
> I think this has been on the list before, but my arching search is
> failling me... I've got containers working with memory limitations using
>
> lxc.cgroup.memory.limit_in_bytes
> and
> lxc.cgroup.memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes
>
> and I can prove that it's working by writing a program to malloc memory
> and watch the oom killer in operation when it reached the limit.. However
> the output of 'top' still shows the entire memory of the host...
>
> Is this something fixable, or "just the way it is" for now?

Ah, just done more searching, (emails from Jan. this year), so forget this 
for now - seems it's "just the way is is" for now, but patches from 
http://www.tinola.com/lxc/ may be promising...

Cheers,

Gordon