> On 1 Apr 2021, at 13:46, Marco Ippolito <maroloc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> >>>> What if you increase the machine's (operating system's) swap space? Does >>>> that take care of the problem in practice? >>> >>> I can`t do that because it will affect other containers running on this >>> host. >>> In my opinion it may significantly reduce their performance. >> >> Assuming this a modern linux then you should have control groups that allow >> you to set limits on memory and swap for each container. >> >> Are you running with systemd? > > If their problem is that their memory goes from `<low>` to `<high>` and then > back down to `<mid>` rather than `<low>`, how could `cgroups` have helped in > that case? > > I suspect the high watermark of `<high>` needs to be reachable still and, > secondly, that a forceful constraint whilst running would crash the container? > > How else could one approach it? >
I was responding to the assertion that adding swap to the system would impact other containers. The solution I have used is to set service/container resource limits to ensure they work as expected. I was not suggestion this a fix for the memory leak. Barry -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list