UBC

UBC, or User Beancounters — a set of limits and guarantees controlled per container. UBC is the major component of OpenVZ resource management.

User Beancounters
Definition
/proc/user_beancounters
/proc/bc/
General information
Units of measurement
VSwap
Parameters description
Primary parameters numproc, numtcpsock, numothersock, vmguarpages
Secondary parameters kmemsize, tcpsndbuf, tcprcvbuf, othersockbuf, dgramrcvbuf, oomguarpages, privvmpages
Auxiliary parameters lockedpages, shmpages, physpages, numfile, numflock, numpty, numsiginfo, dcachesize, numiptent, swappages
Internals
User pages accounting
RSS fractions accounting
On-demand accounting
UBC consistency
Consistency formulae
System-wide configuration
vzubc(8)
Configuration examples
Basic
Derived
Intermediate configurations
Tables
List of parameters
Parameter properties
Consistency
Config examples

See also

• http://blog.maxgarrick.com/understanding-openvz-resource-limits/