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author | Marco Vedovati <mvedovati@suse.com> | 2019-08-30 15:55:59 +0200 |
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committer | Marco Vedovati <mvedovati@suse.com> | 2019-09-05 11:13:39 +0200 |
commit | 5711aabb4d9d705a09085eb6e324ee5dae8ed487 (patch) | |
tree | dbb880281629e27f8197417d293fc2b51df08881 /docs/podman-create.1.md | |
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cli-flags: use a consistent format for <size><unit>
Use a consistent format for description of the <size><unit> flags.
Also, avoid backticks for /dev/shm, as that's interpreted as the format
by the flag parsing lib.
Signed-off-by: Marco Vedovati <mvedovati@suse.com>
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diff --git a/docs/podman-create.1.md b/docs/podman-create.1.md index cee9a1640..9924e7dff 100644 --- a/docs/podman-create.1.md +++ b/docs/podman-create.1.md @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ Default is to create a private IPC namespace (POSIX SysV IPC) for the container **--kernel-memory**=*number[unit]* -Kernel memory limit (format: `<number>[<unit>]`, where unit = b, k, m or g) +Kernel memory limit (format: `<number>[<unit>]`, where unit = b (bytes), k (kilobytes), m (megabytes), or g (gigabytes)) Constrains the kernel memory available to a container. If a limit of 0 is specified (not using `--kernel-memory`), the container's kernel memory @@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ Not currently supported **--memory**, **-m**=*limit* -Memory limit (format: <number>[<unit>], where unit = b, k, m or g) +Memory limit (format: <number>[<unit>], where unit = b (bytes), k (kilobytes), m (megabytes), or g (gigabytes)) Allows you to constrain the memory available to a container. If the host supports swap memory, then the **-m** memory setting can be larger than physical @@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ system's page size (the value would be very large, that's millions of trillions) **--memory-reservation**=*limit* -Memory soft limit (format: <number>[<unit>], where unit = b, k, m or g) +Memory soft limit (format: <number>[<unit>], where unit = b (bytes), k (kilobytes), m (megabytes), or g (gigabytes)) After setting memory reservation, when the system detects memory contention or low memory, containers are forced to restrict their consumption to their @@ -661,9 +661,9 @@ Note: Labeling can be disabled for all containers by setting label=false in the **--shm-size**=*size* -Size of `/dev/shm`. The format is `<number><unit>`. `number` must be greater than `0`. -Unit is optional and can be `b` (bytes), `k` (kilobytes), `m`(megabytes), or `g` (gigabytes). +Size of `/dev/shm` (format: <number>[<unit>], where unit = b (bytes), k (kilobytes), m (megabytes), or g (gigabytes)) If you omit the unit, the system uses bytes. If you omit the size entirely, the system uses `64m`. +When size is `0`, there is no limit on the amount of memory used for IPC by the container. **--stop-signal**=*SIGTERM* |