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authorCharlie Doern <cdoern@redhat.com>2022-07-07 14:44:10 -0400
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resource limits for pods
added the following flags and handling for podman pod create --memory-swap --cpuset-mems --device-read-bps --device-write-bps --blkio-weight --blkio-weight-device --cpu-shares given the new backend for systemd in c/common, all of these can now be exposed to pod create. most of the heavy lifting (nearly all) is done within c/common. However, some rewiring needed to be done here as well! Signed-off-by: Charlie Doern <cdoern@redhat.com>
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@@ -11,10 +11,55 @@ podman\-pod\-clone - Creates a copy of an existing pod
## OPTIONS
+#### **--blkio-weight**=*weight*
+
+Block IO weight (relative weight) accepts a weight value between 10 and 1000.
+
+#### **--blkio-weight-device**=*weight*
+
+Block IO weight (relative device weight, format: `DEVICE_NAME:WEIGHT`).
+
#### **--cgroup-parent**=*path*
Path to cgroups under which the cgroup for the pod will be created. If the path is not absolute, the path is considered to be relative to the cgroups path of the init process. Cgroups will be created if they do not already exist.
+#### **--cpu-shares**, **-c**=*shares*
+
+CPU shares (relative weight)
+
+By default, all containers get the same proportion of CPU cycles. This proportion
+can be modified by changing the container's CPU share weighting relative
+to the weighting of all other running containers.
+
+To modify the proportion from the default of 1024, use the **--cpu-shares**
+flag to set the weighting to 2 or higher.
+
+The proportion will only apply when CPU-intensive processes are running.
+When tasks in one container are idle, other containers can use the
+left-over CPU time. The actual amount of CPU time will vary depending on
+the number of containers running on the system.
+
+For example, consider three containers, one has a cpu-share of 1024 and
+two others have a cpu-share setting of 512. When processes in all three
+containers attempt to use 100% of CPU, the first container would receive
+50% of the total CPU time. If you add a fourth container with a cpu-share
+of 1024, the first container only gets 33% of the CPU. The remaining containers
+receive 16.5%, 16.5% and 33% of the CPU.
+
+On a multi-core system, the shares of CPU time are distributed over all CPU
+cores. Even if a container is limited to less than 100% of CPU time, it can
+use 100% of each individual CPU core.
+
+For example, consider a system with more than three cores. If you start one
+container **{C0}** with **-c=512** running one process, and another container
+**{C1}** with **-c=1024** running two processes, this can result in the following
+division of CPU shares:
+
+PID container CPU CPU share
+100 {C0} 0 100% of CPU0
+101 {C1} 1 100% of CPU1
+102 {C1} 2 100% of CPU2
+
#### **--cpus**
Set a number of CPUs for the pod that overrides the original pods CPU limits. If none are specified, the original pod's Nano CPUs are used.
@@ -23,6 +68,15 @@ Set a number of CPUs for the pod that overrides the original pods CPU limits. If
CPUs in which to allow execution (0-3, 0,1). If none are specified, the original pod's CPUset is used.
+
+#### **--cpuset-mems**=*nodes*
+
+Memory nodes (MEMs) in which to allow execution (0-3, 0,1). Only effective on NUMA systems.
+
+If there are four memory nodes on the system (0-3), use `--cpuset-mems=0,1`
+then processes in the container will only use memory from the first
+two memory nodes.
+
#### **--destroy**
Remove the original pod that we are cloning once used to mimic the configuration.
@@ -48,6 +102,10 @@ device. The devices that Podman will load modules for when necessary are:
Limit read rate (bytes per second) from a device (e.g. --device-read-bps=/dev/sda:1mb).
+#### **--device-write-bps**=*path*
+
+Limit write rate (bytes per second) to a device (e.g. --device-write-bps=/dev/sda:1mb)
+
#### **--gidmap**=*pod_gid:host_gid:amount*
GID map for the user namespace. Using this flag will run all containers in the pod with user namespace enabled. It conflicts with the `--userns` and `--subgidname` flags.
@@ -90,6 +148,17 @@ 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).
+#### **--memory-swap**=*limit*
+
+A limit value equal to memory plus swap. Must be used with the **-m**
+(**--memory**) flag. The swap `LIMIT` should always be larger than **-m**
+(**--memory**) value. By default, the swap `LIMIT` will be set to double
+the value of --memory.
+
+The format of `LIMIT` is `<number>[<unit>]`. Unit can be `b` (bytes),
+`k` (kibibytes), `m` (mebibytes), or `g` (gibibytes). If you don't specify a
+unit, `b` is used. Set LIMIT to `-1` to enable unlimited swap.
+
#### **--name**, **-n**
Set a custom name for the cloned pod. The default if not specified is of the syntax: **<ORIGINAL_NAME>-clone**