[lxc-users] Snapshot size

Tycho Andersen tycho.andersen at canonical.com
Thu Jan 8 14:19:52 UTC 2015


On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 07:42:38PM +0100, Thouraya TH wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On what depends the size of a checkpoint of a container? the size of data that
> are in the container ?

The size of the RAM, lxc-checkpoint is a frontend for CRIU, and CRIU
dumps only memory state (well, and "ghost" file state).

> if i increase the size of data in a container, the snapshot's size increase
> ?

If there is more data in RAM, the CRIU images will be bigger.

Tycho

> Thanks a lot for answer.
> Best Regards.

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