-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 24/01/13 07:06, Mark A. Grondona wrote:
> Yes, but unfortunately it appears that system overcommit setting > does not affect the functionality of the memory cgroups > implementation, which *only* limits resident memory. So you can > think of the current memory cgroup implementation as affecting rss > only. Apologies for the delay, been having some hardware fun recently. You are indeed quite right, and there is no check in the mmap() or sbrk() path to see if that would exceed the limit, only resource limits are checked (RLIMIT_AS being the important one). Sorry for the confusion! Here's a query from the Open Grid Engine folks last June on the same issue, being told that it's not implemented yet: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/12/54 Hey ho.. All the best! Chris - -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator VLSCI - Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Email: sam...@unimelb.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 http://www.vlsci.org.au/ http://twitter.com/vlsci -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEPRZkACgkQO2KABBYQAh/BHgCfTFzKQfrtN90WOPv91/Pk8Yg1 nw0An0BXl7LXstSKuf3mebePb3bHMObx =00sV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----