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From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
To: "Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz" <arekm-evZBlRFTdvA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: cgroup memory limit problems
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:45:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EBB026D.8090701@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201111092157.06819.arekm-evZBlRFTdvA@public.gmane.org>

On 11/09/2011 09:57 PM, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a machine with 6GB of ram and a cgroup for apache processes limited to 
>                 memory.limit_in_bytes = "5100M";
>                 memory.soft_limit_in_bytes = "5000M";
>
> Unfortunately when apache processes ate all ram assigned to their cgroup load 
> on whole machine jumps the roof.
>
> cgroup aware OOM kicks in, kills one process and that doesn't help.

Did you try to disable the oom with the "memory.oom_control" file by
setting it to "1" ?

If the cgroup runs out of memory they should be stopped until you give
more memory or kill some tasks.

Hope that helps
  -- Daniel

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-09 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-09 20:57 cgroup memory limit problems Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
     [not found] ` <201111092157.06819.arekm-evZBlRFTdvA@public.gmane.org>
2011-11-09 22:45   ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
     [not found]     ` <4EBB026D.8090701-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
2011-11-09 23:01       ` Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
2011-11-09 22:51   ` Balbir Singh
     [not found]     ` <CAKTCnzmHk1U6fP+jrw2Rq3dLwU30gyocRBp2QpQVHAbU=x5uSA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2011-11-09 22:53       ` Balbir Singh
2011-11-09 22:58       ` Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz
     [not found]         ` <201111092358.58079.arekm-evZBlRFTdvA@public.gmane.org>
2011-11-10  0:10           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
     [not found]             ` <20111110091012.0ce7d719.kamezawa.hiroyu-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
2011-11-18  9:13               ` Michal Hocko

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