[lxc-users] How to set the resource limits to a container

Flo florian.engelmann at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 16:22:46 UTC 2014


Hi,

max_usage is the amount of memory that WAS used by the container at it's
maximum(!) since it was started.

Regards,
Flo


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Mingjiang Shi <mrjewes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Andreas.  The file memory.limit_in_bytes is
> under /cgroup/memory/lxc/[container].
>
> By the way, what's the difference between memory.limit_in_bytes
> and memory.max_usage_in_bytes?  On my system, the values are:
> [root at devmachine lxc110]# cat memory.limit_in_bytes
> 9223372036854775807
> [root at devmachine lxc110]# cat memory.max_usage_in_bytes
> 495345664
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Andreas Laut <andreas.laut at spark5.de>wrote:
>
>>  The memory limit is set through cgroup.
>> You can change this through lxc-cgroup -n [Container]
>> memory.limit_in_bytes = XG
>> Or echo into the /sys/fs/cgroup/lxc/[Container] memory.limit_in_bytes
>> (and change this in container config: lxc.cgroup.memory.limit_in_bytes =
>> XG)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andreas
>>
>> Am 21.03.2014 10:28, schrieb Mingjiang Shi:
>>
>> Hi there,
>> My application in the container is running out of memory.  How to set the
>> resource such as memory limits to a container so that it gets more memory?
>>  I googled a lot but didn't find straightforward tutorials. Thanks!
>>
>>  --
>> Thanks
>> -Mingjiang
>>
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