Behavior of soft and hard cgroup limits on /dev/shm filesystem

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Issue

  • The cgroup behavior with /dev/shm filesystems is non-obvious
  • Utilizing tmpfs with soft limits can lead to OOM events

Environment

  • Seen in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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