[lxc-users] Is it possible to change memory limits without restarting container?

CDR venefax at gmail.com
Fri May 9 02:39:57 UTC 2014


Dear Friends
I found an example for the config file
lxc.cgroup.memory.limit_in_bytes = 5GB
lxc.cgroup.memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes = 6G

But the container still shows100% of the memoty.

Philip


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:35 PM, CDR <venefax at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear friends
>
> The memory control does not work
> I run this command
> lxc-cgroup -n utel-kde memory.limit_in_bytes 53687091
> which is supposed to assing 5B of ram to my container.
> Then I logged into the container and the box´s memory was still visible within.
> Then I added this line to the config
> memory.limit_in_bytes 536870910, rebooted and when the container was
> up, the whole box´s memory was available.
> What am I missing.
>
> Philip
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Piotr Synowiec
> <synowiec.piotr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks, it's working!
>> Good day ;)
>>
>>
>> 2014-05-06 15:35 GMT+02:00 Dwight Engen <dwight.engen at oracle.com>:
>>
>>> On Tue, 6 May 2014 15:19:28 +0200
>>> Piotr Synowiec <synowiec.piotr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> >    I want to update memory.limit_in_bytes. The question is do I need
>>> > to restart container after changing that limit or there is a way to
>>> > apply that limit w/out restarting container?
>>>
>>> You don't need to restart, see the lxc-cgroup command.
>>>
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Piotr Synowiec
>>>
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