|
@@ -170,14 +170,14 @@ NOTE: We can use a suffix (k, K, m, M, g or G) to indicate values in kilo,
|
|
|
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
|
|
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ this file after a write to guarantee the value committed by the kernel.
|
|
|
|
|
|
# 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.
|
|
@@ -233,13 +233,6 @@ cgroup might have some charge associated with it, even though all
|
|
|
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)
|
|
@@ -262,18 +255,19 @@ References
|
|
|
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/
|