On Mar 26, 2013, at 5:55 AM, Nicolas de Bari Embriz Garcia Rojas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, how can I add more swap space within a jail ? > > I have a jail with limited resources via rctl with somethiing like: > > jail:myjail:maxproc:deny=50 > jail:myjail:memoryuse:deny=512M > jail:myjail:swapuse:deny=512M > > But I want to know it it is possible to add jail disk space to > increment the swap ? > > I am trying to compile gearmand/boots-libs but I can't since eats to > much memory. > > An initial solution is to add the swap on the host, but is there a way > to do it within the jail so that the (root user/admin) doesn't have to > bother the host admin. I jail does not have its own virtual memory subsystem so I doubt this is possible or advisable. And even if the host admin configures it, swap space should NOT be directly readable from a jail as it will likely contain data from external processes which the jail should not have access to. JN _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-jail To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
