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'''OpenVZ resource management''' is a set of controls providing per-[[VE]] limits. These limits may be used to encourage VEs to coexist gracefully on a single physical server.
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'''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 primary controllers:
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OpenVZ resource management includes these four primary controllers:
  
* [[User beancounters]]
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* [[User beancounters]] (and [[VSwap]])
 
* [[Disk quota]]
 
* [[Disk quota]]
 
* [[CPU Fair scheduler]]
 
* [[CPU Fair scheduler]]
* [[I/O priorities for VE]] and [[IO accounting]]
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* [[I/O priorities]] and [[I/O limits]]
  
 
OpenVZ administrators can also use the following mainstream Linux mechanisms:
 
OpenVZ administrators can also use the following mainstream Linux mechanisms:

Latest revision as of 11:10, 13 December 2013

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:

OpenVZ administrators can also use the following mainstream Linux mechanisms: