hi mark, >> 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? >> >> either we're very tired and are overlooking something obvious, or >> there's something new to be learned ;) >> > Wonder if it's overcommitting memory.VMs do that, as a matter of course. should have mentioned this, but this is not a VM. also, i expect any overcommit related numbers to show up in the memsw counters stijn > > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >