hi rob, >> can someone help explaining what we are seeing? it makes no sense to us. >> this is a host running centos 7.4 with 3.10.0-693.17.1 kernel, and it >> has 192GB of ram >> >>> [] free -b >>> total used free shared >>> buff/cache available >>> Mem: 201402642432 14413479936 75642777600 48586752 111346384896 >>> 185689632768 >>> Swap: 21474832384 31961088 21442871296 >>> [] cat /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.max_usage_in_bytes >>> 273102151680 >> how can the max be so much higher than total, and this is not even memsw? > Binary K,M,G are 1024 multiples not 1000 so total seems a little low. no, it's a bit lower than i expected, but it's the ususal reserved/absent memory (dmesg|grep Memory) and i mainly want to know why the max is higher than the limit. stijn >> either we're very tired and are overlooking something obvious, or >> there's something new to be learned ;) >> >> many thanks, >> >> stijn >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >