On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 06:09:40PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: [...] > It applies. The major point is that with containers, RAM is shared > accross containers (the same kernel is used for all containers). If one > container needs for a few seconds 200 MB, it can just use them. No > memory needs to be allocated for the exclusive of one container. [...]
You can also allow VMs to do this with the use of a balloon driver to reclaim memory. But you should normally put some limit on the memory used by a VM/container. (One of the biggest problems people have with LXC in squeeze is lack of the memory resource controller in official packages.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120207180755.gb12...@decadent.org.uk