Memory management in VZ7
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This article is for Virtuozzo 7 only.
VCMMD is Virtuozzo Container Memory Management Daemon that is available since Virtuozzo 7.
Project resources[edit]
The source code is on GitHub
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Previous approaches[edit]
VCMMD is the 4th generation of resource management in Virtuozzo, which builds upon the previous ones. They are:
- 3rd gen: VSwap
- 2nd gen: SLM (was not available in OpenVZ)
- 1st gen: User Beancounters
VCMMD is available in Virtuozzo since vzkernel-3.10.0-123.1.2.vz7.5.17 or later and vcmmd-7.0.6 or later.
See also[edit]
- Slides about memory management in Virtuozzo containers (in Russian)
- "Управление памятью контейнеров в проекте OpenVZ" (in Russian)
- Kernel patches: idle memory tracking
- vcmmd packages in various Linux distributions.
