[Users] Understanding resource usages in containers

Nipun Arora nipunarora2512 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 1 13:17:25 PST 2014


Thanks.. This explanation is very useful

Nipun

On Friday, November 28, 2014, Kevin Holly [Fusl] <openvz at lists.dedilink.eu>
wrote:

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> On 11/28/2014 03:47 PM, Nipun Arora wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> Hi Nipun!
>
> > 1. --cpu-limit puts a limit on the max percentage of cpu that can
> > be used in the container.
> Exactly. 100% is a core, 200% is two cores and so on.
> > Does this also limit the number of processors the container has
> > access to?
> No, it does not. For that you need --cpus.
> For example: Defining --cpus 2 --cpulimit 100 results in processes
> being migrated around 2 cores with either a maximum of 50% for each
> core (if both cores are used at the same time) or 100% for one core
> (if only one core is used at the same time) or something in between.
> So, the resulting sum of both cores calculated does never exceed 100%
> (75%+25%=100%, or 10%+90%=100%, and so on...).
>
> > 2. --io-limit is a way to limit the I/O - How is this measured?
> > Both read+write combined?
> - --iolimit limits both, read and write. Read and write are combined.
> But(!), --iolimit never limits cached read/writes, only direct access
> or flushed data/access.
>
> - --
> Best regards
>
> Kevin Holly - root at hallowe.lt <javascript:;> - http://hallowe.lt/
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