[Users] fake swap != 0 in VE? (solved)

[Dariush Pietrzak]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Thomas Sattler wrote:

> >Why not
> >mount --bind fakememinfo /proc/meminfo
> >inside the VE? Would be easiest, but the
> >contents will not match real meminfo
> >because they do not get updated.
> 
> I didn't expect this to work ...
> ... But it does. :-)
> 
> I attached a little script to be run as root
> inside a VE to fake swap. 512MB are default,
> you can change it on the commandline:

 Hmm, I find it strange that such hacks are needed, especially when openvz
already does do some kind of virtualization of /proc/meminfo (if I'm
interpreting this correctly, it sets max-mem from userbeancounters barrier
on VE start, but subsequent online changes are ignored)
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