As far as I know, that's normal – /proc/meminfo always reflects the total
amount of memory, regardless of cgroup limits. LXC uses lxcfs to mount a
fake meminfo file there, nspawn doesn't have an equivalent.

On Sun, Aug 6, 2023, 18:55 Paulo Coghi - Coghi IT <pauloco...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I used "systemctl set-property
> systemd-nspawn@my-container-real-name.service MemoryMax=2G", to test
> defining a limit on RAM usage of a nspawn container.
>
> But after setting the limit, with the config being created at
> "/etc/systemd/system.control/" correctly, when I start the container and
> enter on it, the "free" command still shows the memory info from the host.
>
> Is this correct? If yes, is there a way to make the container to show only
> the memory separated to it?
>
> Paulo Coghi
>

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