Hi Roman,

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 01:36:10PM +0100, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> +  memory.min
> +     A read-write single value file which exists on non-root
> +     cgroups.  The default is "0".
> +
> +     Hard memory protection.  If the memory usage of a cgroup
> +     is within its effective min boundary, the cgroup's memory
> +     won't be reclaimed under any conditions. If there is no
> +     unprotected reclaimable memory available, OOM killer
> +     is invoked.

What will happen if all tasks attached to a cgroup are killed by OOM,
but its memory usage is still within memory.min? Will memory.min be
ignored then?

> +
> +     Effective low boundary is limited by memory.min values of
> +     all ancestor cgroups. If there is memory.min overcommitment
> +     (child cgroup or cgroups are requiring more protected memory
> +     than parent will allow), then each child cgroup will get
> +     the part of parent's protection proportional to its
> +     actual memory usage below memory.min.
> +
> +     Putting more memory than generally available under this
> +     protection is discouraged and may lead to constant OOMs.

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