Why shouldn’t it be possible to create a file with size > 
$some_cgroup_page_cache_memory_limit? What’s the point here?

> Am 16.01.2015 um 20:32 schrieb Serge Hallyn <[email protected]>:
> 
> Yes, I believe you need to use the kmem limits for that.  Those are afaik
> not yet fully supported, sadly, but my ubuntu utopic host at least has
> them available:  memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes etc
> 
> Quoting Mohan G ([email protected]):
>> Hi,I created a cgroup and set memory limit as 400M. And i ran my test 
>> program which is under this group to create a file of size 8G. ( thinking 
>> that the amount of page cache pages needed at any point of time can exceed 
>> 400M). But i did not have any issues and the file got created. So my 
>> question is do these memory limits only apply to non file based operations. 
>> ie (page cache is not accounted for ?). The question is relevant to 
>> containers too.. ( same logic applies here too).
>> RegardsMohan
>> 
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