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

Mingjiang Shi mrjewes at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 14:24:04 UTC 2014


Thanks for all the replies.


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Flo <florian.engelmann at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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