mega or gigabytes.
# cat /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
-4194304 Bytes
+4194304
NOTE: The interface has now changed to display the usage in bytes
instead of pages
We can check the usage:
# cat /cgroups/0/memory.usage_in_bytes
-1216512 Bytes
+1216512
A successful write to this file does not guarantee a successful set of
this limit to the value written into the file. This can be due to a
# echo -n 1 > memory.limit_in_bytes
# cat memory.limit_in_bytes
-4096 Bytes
+4096
The memory.failcnt field gives the number of times that the cgroup limit was
exceeded.
tasks have migrated away from it. Such charges are automatically dropped at
rmdir() if there are no tasks.
-4.4 Choosing what to account -- Page Cache (unmapped) vs RSS (mapped)?
-
-The type of memory accounted by the cgroup can be limited to just
-mapped pages by writing "1" to memory.control_type field
-
-echo -n 1 > memory.control_type
-
5. TODO
1. Add support for accounting huge pages (as a separate controller)
3. Emelianov, Pavel. Resource controllers based on process cgroups
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/6/198
4. Emelianov, Pavel. RSS controller based on process cgroups (v2)
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/9/74
+ http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/9/78
5. Emelianov, Pavel. RSS controller based on process cgroups (v3)
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/30/244
6. Menage, Paul. Control Groups v10, http://lwn.net/Articles/236032/
7. Vaidyanathan, Srinivasan, Control Groups: Pagecache accounting and control
subsystem (v3), http://lwn.net/Articles/235534/
-8. Singh, Balbir. RSS controller V2 test results (lmbench),
+8. Singh, Balbir. RSS controller v2 test results (lmbench),
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/17/232
-9. Singh, Balbir. RSS controller V2 AIM9 results
+9. Singh, Balbir. RSS controller v2 AIM9 results
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/18/1
-10. Singh, Balbir. Memory controller v6 results,
+10. Singh, Balbir. Memory controller v6 test results,
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/19/36
-11. Singh, Balbir. Memory controller v6, http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/17/69
+11. Singh, Balbir. Memory controller introduction (v6),
+ http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/17/69
12. Corbet, Jonathan, Controlling memory use in cgroups,
http://lwn.net/Articles/243795/