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authorCharlie Doern <cdoern@redhat.com>2022-08-09 09:25:03 -0400
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podman update allows users to change the cgroup configuration of an existing container using the already defined resource limits flags from podman create/run. The supported flags in crun are: this command is also now supported in the libpod api via the /libpod/containers/<CID>/update endpoint where the resource limits are passed inthe request body and follow the OCI resource spec format –memory –cpus –cpuset-cpus –cpuset-mems –memory-swap –memory-reservation –cpu-shares –cpu-quota –cpu-period –blkio-weight –cpu-rt-period –cpu-rt-runtime -device-read-bps -device-write-bps -device-read-iops -device-write-iops -memory-swappiness -blkio-weight-device resolves #15067 Signed-off-by: Charlie Doern <cdoern@redhat.com>
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+#### **--memory**, **-m**=*number[unit]*
+
+Memory limit. A _unit_ can be **b** (bytes), **k** (kibibytes), **m** (mebibytes), or **g** (gibibytes).
+
+Allows the memory available to a container to be constrained. If the host
+supports swap memory, then the **-m** memory setting can be larger than physical
+RAM. If a limit of 0 is specified (not using **-m**), the container's memory is
+not limited. The actual limit may be rounded up to a multiple of the operating
+system's page size (the value would be very large, that's millions of trillions).
+
+This option is not supported on cgroups V1 rootless systems.