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diff --git a/docs/source/markdown/options/memory.md b/docs/source/markdown/options/memory.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1be9159c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/source/markdown/options/memory.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +#### **--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. |