CONTAINER-LIMIT(1)

✨ container-limit(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the compute-tools corner of the General Commands Manual 💅 this one is called container-limit and it's literally the girl who tells your containers "no, you cannot eat the entire CPU, sit DOWN" 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

container-limit — Limit resources of a container

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

container limit ['OPTIONS']

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

The container limit command limits resources available to a container at runtime. no cap, that's the whole vibe — you point at a running container and you're like "here's your budget, stay in it" ✨

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

The following container limit options are available:

• -n, --name='NAME' — Specify container name. yes you have to name names, this is how it knows which container we're budgeting 🎀
• --blockio-device-weight='DEVICE WEIGHT' — Specify device specific blockio weight, see systemd.resource-control(5).
• --blockio-read-bandwidth='DEVICE BYTES' — Specify device specific blockio read bandwidth, see systemd.resource-control(5).
• -b, --blockio-weight='WEIGHT' — Specify general blockio weight, see systemd.resource-control(5).
• --blockio-write-bandwidth='DEVICE BYTES' — Specify device specific blockio write bandwidth, see systemd.resource-control(5).
• -c, --cpu-quota='QUOTA' — Specify CPU quota, see systemd.resource-control(5).
• --cpu-shares='SHARES' — Specify CPU shares, see systemd.resource-control(5).
• -m, --memory-limit='BYTES' — Specify memory limit, see systemd.resource-control(5).
• -t, --tasks-max='NUMBER' — Specify tasks max, see systemd.resource-control(5).

not me listing every single one of these with the exact same SEE ALSO reference — yes bestie, they all genuinely point you at systemd.resource-control(5), go read it, it's giving ✨required reading✨ 😭

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Set blockio weight for the example.net container:

sudo container limit -n example.net --blockio-weight 100

Set CPU quota for the example.net container:

sudo container limit -n example.net --cpu-quota 10%

Set memory limit for the example.net container to 1GB:

sudo container limit -n example.net --memory-limit 1G

Set tasks max for the example.net container to 100:

sudo container limit -n example.net --tasks-max 100

look at her go, four whole examples, absolutely ate 🔥

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• compute-tools(7)
• container(1)

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💜 HOMEPAGE 💜

More information about compute-tools and the Open Infrastructure project can be found on the homepage (<https://open-infrastructure.net>).

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🍓 CONTACT 🍓

Bug reports, feature requests, help, patches, support and everything else are welcome on the Open Infrastructure Software Mailing List <software@lists.open-infrastructure.net>.

Debian specific bugs can also be reported in the Debian Bug Tracking System (<https://bugs.debian.org>).

yes bestie, mailing list for the general stuff, Debian BTS for the Debian-flavoured stuff — iykyk 💅

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⭐ AUTHORS ⭐

compute-tools were written by Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net> and others.

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and that's the whole page, periodt 🎀 this was Open Infrastructure's compute-tools, container-limit(1), brought to you from the General Commands Manual — go forth and limit responsibly, mwah 💖✨🦋