[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH] allow "unlimited" limit value.

[Paul Menage]

On 9/25/07, David Rientjes <rientjes at google.com> wrote:
>
> If I echo -n 8191 > memory.limit_in_bytes, I'm still only going to be able
> to charge one page on my x86_64.  And then my program's malloc(5000) is
> going to fail, which leads to the inevitable head scratching.

This is a very unrealistic argument. Page-size rounding really has no
effect on any reasonable-sized memory cgroup.

Expressing it in bytes seems reasonable to me, since they are after
all the fundamental unit that's being counted ("kilobytes" are
explicitly an aggregation of "bytes").

Paul
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