Behavior of soft and hard cgroup limits on /dev/shm filesystem
Issue
- The cgroup behavior with
/dev/shmfilesystems 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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