Resource management
OpenVZ resource management is a set of controls providing per-container resource accounting and limiting. This is required for multiple containers to coexist gracefully on a single host system.
OpenVZ resource management includes these four primary controllers:
- User beancounters (a set of limits and guarantees controlled per container : mem, processes, ...)
- Disk quota
- CPU Fair scheduler
- I/O priorities for VE and IO accounting
OpenVZ administrators can also use the following mainstream Linux mechanisms:
