[Debian] Re: Vswap config in Debian Squeeze

Kir Kolyshkin kir at parallels.com
Mon Aug 8 06:17:52 EDT 2011


On 08/08/2011 08:49 AM, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> Thanks Kir
>
> It turned out however that Aleksandr actually wanted to know something else.
> And it was whether M,G,K keywords and "unlimited" keyword was supported.
> I pointed to the man page and told yes. :-)

OK, thank you!

Just to clarify -- the configs that Aleksandr is asking about
must not be used on a Debian OpenVZ kernel.

> // Ola
>
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 01:07:03AM +0400, Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
>> VSwap is only supported by RHEL6-based kernel, which is not the same as
>> 2.6.32-based used by Debian.
>>
>> We are planning to build deb packages of our RHEL6-based kernel (or
>> convert binary rpms to debs). No ETA though.
>>
>> On 08/07/2011 03:23 PM, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
>>> Privet Aleksandr
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 08:08:17PM -0700, Aleksandr Levchuk wrote:
>>>>      Hi Ola,
>>>>      Thank you!
>>>>      I'm only interested in the human config values K,M,G,...
>>>>      and the "unlimited" keyword.
>>> The unlimited keyword is supported. It exists in ve-unlimited.conf sample file.
>>> It is also documented in vzctl man page. See man vzctl, section Resource limits.
>>>
>>> And as you can see from the man page also the human K,M,G is also supported.
>>>
>>> But was that really the original question? I thought you asked about vswap
>>> support? It is not the same thing.
>>>
>>> The only thing I can find in vzctl about swap is swappages and that is not
>>> vswap as far as I can tell.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> // Ola
>>>
>>>>      (as shown in my example config)
>>>>      Alex
>>>>      On Saturday, August 6, 2011, Ola Lundqvist<[1]ola at inguza.com>   wrote:
>>>>      >   Hi Alexksandr
>>>>      >
>>>>      >   Do you mean the kernel or the vzctl software? From what I can tell it
>>>>      is
>>>>      >   only supported by RHEL6 based kernel, but I may be wrong here.
>>>>      >
>>>>      >   When I read about vswap I do not really understand the use of it.
>>>>      >
>>>>      >   In any case, I'm cc:ing the openvz debian list to see if anyone there
>>>>      >   knows.
>>>>      >
>>>>      >   // Ola
>>>>      >
>>>>      >   On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 03:14:21PM -0700, Aleksandr Levchuk wrote:
>>>>      >>   Dear Ola,
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>   Does Debian Squeeze support the Vswap configs?
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>   For example: ve-vswap-512m.conf-sample
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>   ===========================
>>>>      >>   #  Copyright (C) 2000-2011, Parallels, Inc. All rights reserved.
>>>>      >>   #
>>>>      >>   #  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>>>>      modify
>>>>      >>   #  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
>>>>      by
>>>>      >>   #  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
>>>>      >>   #  (at your option) any later version.
>>>>      >>   #
>>>>      >>   #  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>>>>      >>   #  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>>>>      >>   #  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
>>>>      >>   #  GNU General Public License for more details.
>>>>      >>   #
>>>>      >>   #  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>>>>      >>   #  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
>>>>      >>   #  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
>>>>      02111-1307  USA
>>>>      >>   #
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>   # This config is valid for VSwap-enabled kernel (which currently
>>>>      means
>>>>      >>   # any RHEL6-based kernel, i.e. 042test* or 042stab*).
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>   # UBC parameters (in form of barrier:limit)
>>>>      >>   PHYSPAGES="0:512M"
>>>>      >>   SWAPPAGES="0:1G"
>>>>      >>   KMEMSIZE="233M:256M"
>>>>      >>   LOCKEDPAGES="256M"
>>>>      >>   PRIVVMPAGES="unlimited"
>>>>      >>   SHMPAGES="unlimited"
>>>>      >>   NUMPROC="unlimited"
>>>>      >>   VMGUARPAGES="0:unlimited"
>>>>      >>   OOMGUARPAGES="0:unlimited"
>>>>      >>   NUMTCPSOCK="unlimited"
>>>>      >>   NUMFLOCK="unlimited"
>>>>      >>   NUMPTY="unlimited"
>>>>      >>   NUMSIGINFO="unlimited"
>>>>      >>   TCPSNDBUF="unlimited"
>>>>      >>   TCPRCVBUF="unlimited"
>>>>      >>   OTHERSOCKBUF="unlimited"
>>>>      >>   DGRAMRCVBUF="unlimited"
>>>>      >>   NUMOTHERSOCK="unlimited"
>>>>      >>   DCACHESIZE="unlimited"
>>>>      >>   NUMFILE="unlimited"
>>>>      >>   NUMIPTENT="unlimited"
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>   # Disk quota parameters (in form of softlimit:hardlimit)
>>>>      >>   DISKSPACE="2G:2.2G"
>>>>      >>   DISKINODES="200000:220000"
>>>>      >>   QUOTATIME="0"
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>   # CPU fair scheduler parameter
>>>>      >>   CPUUNITS="1000"
>>>>      >>   ===========================
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>   Thanks!
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>   Alex
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>   --
>>>>      >>   ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>      >>   Aleksandr Levchuk
>>>>      >>   Bioinformatics Systems and Databases
>>>>      >>   [2]http://facility.bioinformatics.ucr.edu/people/aleksandr-levchuk
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>   Cell Phone: (951) 368-0004
>>>>      >>   Lab Phone: (951) 905-5232
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >>   Institute for Integrative Genome Biology
>>>>      >>   University of California, Riverside
>>>>      >>   ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>      >>
>>>>      >
>>>>      >   --
>>>>      >    --- Inguza Technology AB --- MSc in Information Technology ----
>>>>      >   /  [3]ola at inguza.com                    Annebergsslingan 37        \
>>>>      >   |  [4]opal at debian.org                   654 65 KARLSTAD            |
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>>>>      >
>>>>      --
>>>>      ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>      Aleksandr Levchuk
>>>>      Bioinformatics Systems and Databases
>>>>      [6]http://facility.bioinformatics.ucr.edu/people/aleksandr-levchuk
>>>>      Cell Phone: (951) 368-0004
>>>>      Lab Phone: (951) 905-5232
>>>>      Institute for Integrative Genome Biology
>>>>      University of California, Riverside
>>>>      ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Referenser
>>>>
>>>>      1. mailto:ola at inguza.com
>>>>      2. http://facility.bioinformatics.ucr.edu/people/aleksandr-levchuk
>>>>      3. mailto:ola at inguza.com
>>>>      4. mailto:opal at debian.org
>>>>      5. http://inguza.com/
>>>>      6. http://facility.bioinformatics.ucr.edu/people/aleksandr-levchuk
>>



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