Ubuntu Manpage: podman-update - Update the cgroup configuration of a given container

Provided by: podman_4.9.3+ds1-1ubuntu0.1_amd64

NAME

       podman-update - Update the cgroup configuration of a given container

SYNOPSIS

       podman update [options] container

       podman container update [options] container

DESCRIPTION

       Updates the cgroup configuration of an already existing container. The currently supported
       options are a subset of the podman create/run resource limits options. These  new  options
       are  non-persistent  and  only  last  for  the  current  execution  of  the container; the
       configuration is honored on its next run.  This  means  that  this  command  can  only  be
       executed  on an already running container and the changes made is erased the next time the
       container is stopped and restarted, this is to ensure immutability.   This  command  takes
       one argument, a container name or ID, alongside the resource flags to modify the cgroup.

OPTIONS

--blkio-weight=weight
Block IO relative weight. The weight is a value between 10 and 1000.

This option is not supported on cgroups V1 rootless systems.

--blkio-weight-device=device:weight
Block IO relative device weight.

--cpu-period=limit
Set the CPU period for the Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS), which is a duration in
microseconds. Once the container's CPU quota is used up, it will not be scheduled to run
until the current period ends. Defaults to 100000 microseconds.

On some systems, changing the resource limits may not be allowed for non-root users. For
more details, see
https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/troubleshooting.md#26-running-containers-
with-resource-limits-fails-with-a-permissions-error

This option is not supported on cgroups V1 rootless systems.

--cpu-quota=limit
Limit the CPU Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) quota.

Limit the container's CPU usage. By default, containers run with the full CPU resource.
The limit is a number in microseconds. If a number is provided, the container is allowed
to use that much CPU time until the CPU period ends (controllable via --cpu-period).

This option is not supported on cgroups V1 rootless systems.

--cpu-rt-period=microseconds
Limit the CPU real-time period in microseconds.

Limit the container's Real Time CPU usage. This option tells the kernel to restrict the
container's Real Time CPU usage to the period specified.

This option is only supported on cgroups V1 rootful systems.

--cpu-rt-runtime=microseconds
Limit the CPU real-time runtime in microseconds.

Limit the containers Real Time CPU usage. This option tells the kernel to limit the amount
of time in a given CPU period Real Time tasks may consume. Ex: Period of 1,000,000us and
Runtime of 950,000us means that this container can consume 95% of available CPU and leave
the remaining 5% to normal priority tasks.

The sum of all runtimes across containers cannot exceed the amount allotted to the parent
cgroup.

This option is only supported on cgroups V1 rootful systems.

--cpu-shares, -c=shares
CPU shares (relative weight).

By default, all containers get the same proportion of CPU cycles. This proportion can be
modified by changing the container's CPU share weighting relative to the combined weight
of all the running containers. Default weight is 1024.

The proportion only applies when CPU-intensive processes are running. When tasks in one
container are idle, other containers can use the left-over CPU time. The actual amount of
CPU time varies depending on the number of containers running on the system.

For example, consider three containers, one has a cpu-share of 1024 and two others have a
cpu-share setting of 512. When processes in all three containers attempt to use 100% of
CPU, the first container receives 50% of the total CPU time. If a fourth container is
added with a cpu-share of 1024, the first container only gets 33% of the CPU. The
remaining containers receive 16.5%, 16.5% and 33% of the CPU.

On a multi-core system, the shares of CPU time are distributed over all CPU cores. Even if
a container is limited to less than 100% of CPU time, it can use 100% of each individual
CPU core.

For example, consider a system with more than three cores. If the container C0 is started
with --cpu-shares=512 running one process, and another container C1 with --cpu-shares=1024
running two processes, this can result in the following division of CPU shares:

┌────┬───────────┬─────┬──────────────┐
│PID │ container │ CPU │ CPU share │
├────┼───────────┼─────┼──────────────┤
│100 │ C0 │ 0 │ 100% of CPU0 │
├────┼───────────┼─────┼──────────────┤
│101 │ C1 │ 1 │ 100% of CPU1 │
├────┼───────────┼─────┼──────────────┤
│102 │ C1 │ 2 │ 100% of CPU2 │
└────┴───────────┴─────┴──────────────┘

This option is not supported on cgroups V1 rootless systems.

--cpus=number
Number of CPUs. The default is 0.0 which means no limit. This is shorthand for --cpu-
period and --cpu-quota, therefore the option cannot be specified with --cpu-period or
--cpu-quota.

On some systems, changing the CPU limits may not be allowed for non-root users. For more
details, see https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/troubleshooting.md#26-running-
containers-with-resource-limits-fails-with-a-permissions-error

This option is not supported on cgroups V1 rootless systems.

--cpuset-cpus=number
CPUs in which to allow execution. Can be specified as a comma-separated list (e.g. 0,1),
as a range (e.g. 0-3), or any combination thereof (e.g. 0-3,7,11-15).

This option is not supported on cgroups V1 rootless systems.

--cpuset-mems=nodes
Memory nodes (MEMs) in which to allow execution (0-3, 0,1). Only effective on NUMA
systems.

If there are four memory nodes on the system (0-3), use --cpuset-mems=0,1 then processes
in the container only uses memory from the first two memory nodes.

This option is not supported on cgroups V1 rootless systems.

--device-read-bps=path:rate
Limit read rate (in bytes per second) from a device (e.g. --device-read-bps=/dev/sda:1mb).

This option is not supported on cgroups V1 rootless systems.

--device-read-iops=path:rate
Limit read rate (in IO operations per second) from a device (e.g. --device-read-
iops=/dev/sda:1000).

This option is not supported on cgroups V1 rootless systems.

--device-write-bps=path:rate
Limit write rate (in bytes per second) to a device (e.g. --device-write-bps=/dev/sda:1mb).

This option is not supported on cgroups V1 rootless systems.

--device-write-iops=path:rate
Limit write rate (in IO operations per second) to a device (e.g. --device-write-
iops=/dev/sda:1000).

This option is not supported on cgroups V1 rootless systems.

--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 is very large,
that's millions of trillions).

This option is not supported on cgroups V1 rootless systems.

--memory-reservation=number[unit]
Memory soft limit. A unit can be b (bytes), k (kibibytes), m (mebibytes), or g
(gibibytes).

After setting memory reservation, when the system detects memory contention or low memory,
containers are forced to restrict their consumption to their reservation. So always set
the value below --memory, otherwise the hard limit takes precedence. By default, memory
reservation is the same as memory limit.

This option is not supported on cgroups V1 rootless systems.

--memory-swap=number[unit]
A limit value equal to memory plus swap. A unit can be b (bytes), k (kibibytes), m
(mebibytes), or g (gibibytes).

Must be used with the -m (--memory) flag. The argument value must be larger than that of
-m (--memory) By default, it is set to double the value of --memory.

Set number to -1 to enable unlimited swap.

This option is not supported on cgroups V1 rootless systems.

--memory-swappiness=number
Tune a container's memory swappiness behavior. Accepts an integer between 0 and 100.

This flag is only supported on cgroups V1 rootful systems.

--pids-limit=limit
Tune the container's pids limit. Set to -1 to have unlimited pids for the container. The
default is 2048 on systems that support "pids" cgroup controller.

EXAMPLEs

       update a container with a new cpu quota and period

       podman update --cpus=5 myCtr

       update a container with all available options for cgroups v2

       podman update --cpus 5 --cpuset-cpus 0 --cpu-shares 123 --cpuset-mems 0 --memory 1G --memory-swap 2G --memory-reservation 2G --blkio-weight-device /dev/zero:123 --blkio-weight 123 --device-read-bps /dev/zero:10mb --device-write-bps /dev/zero:10mb --device-read-iops /dev/zero:1000 --device-write-iops /dev/zero:1000 --pids-limit 123 ctrID

       update a container with all available options for cgroups v1

       podman update --cpus 5 --cpuset-cpus 0 --cpu-shares 123 --cpuset-mems 0 --memory 1G --memory-swap 2G --memory-reservation 2G --memory-swappiness 50 --pids-limit 123 ctrID

HISTORY

       August    2022,    Originally    written    by     Charlie     Doern     cdoern@redhat.com
       ⟨mailto:cdoern@redhat.com⟩

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