I guess it means oom, i.e. out of memory killer had to kill someone since 
vswap+ram was not enough...

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On 21.06.2012, at 8:58, "Rene C." <ope...@dokbua.com> wrote:

> 
> I just noticed a couple of containers on one of our  vswap enabled servers 
> have non-zero failcnt's (user_beancounters)
> 
>        uid  resource                     held              maxheld            
>   barrier                limit              failcnt
>      1413:
>             physpages                   84873               131166            
>         0               131072                   61
>             oomguarpages                94628               377952            
>         0  9223372036854775807                    4
>      1409:
>             physpages                   52986               262155            
>         0               262144                 1378
>             oomguarpages                57155               376725            
>         0  9223372036854775807                   18
> 
> (I've deleted lines with zero failcnt for clarity)
> 
> It was my understanding that if a vswap enabled container try to use more 
> physpages than available it would start "vswapping" - is that what happens 
> here? Otherwise how can physpages fail?  Is this normal swapping behavior or 
> a problem?
> 
> A second thing is, when I tried to raise the physpages value with vzctl it 
> again wrote the old "block" values into the vz conf files, i.e. 
> 
> i.e. before running vzctl the values are like this: 
> < PHYSPAGES="0:512M"
> < SWAPPAGES="0:1024M"
> 
> after running vzctl --set 1413 --save --ram 512M --swap 1G the values are 
> like this:
> > PHYSPAGES="0:131072"
> > SWAPPAGES="0:262144"
> 
> I already opened a bug report on this and I though it had been fixed already. 
>  Is there some undocumented flag that needs to be provided to vzctl to get it 
> to write out the values in the easy human readable format?
> 
> Regards,
> Rene
> 
> <ATT00001.c>

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