Memory management in VZ7

VCMMD is Virtuozzo Container Memory Management Daemon that is available since Virtuozzo 7.

Project resources

The source code is on GitHub

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Previous approaches

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

• Memory management in Virtuozzo containers
• Kernel patches: idle memory tracking
• vcmmd packages in various Linux distributions.