Subject: Re: [vserver] Memory limits not enforced
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:59:47 +0200

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 04:33:15PM +0200, Yanek wrote:
> Hi,

> I've built a new vserver on a host that already has 5
> guests running. I want to enforce memory limits on the new
> guest, so I just copied /etc/vservers/someguest/rlimits to
> /etc/vservers/newguest. rlimits contains rss.hard and rss.soft
> with respective values of 64000 and 32000.

kernel/patch and util-vserver version?

> For some reason, the limits are not enforced at all and running
> top inside the new guest still displays all the memory of the
> host. The limits are correctly enforced on all of the 5 other
> vservers.

> Any clue on what I am missing?

my bet would be on rlimits vs cgroups

best,
Herbert

> Thanks by advance :)