<soft_limit>

Specifies a soft limit for the physical host memory requirements of the virtual server memory.

Text content

None.

Selected attributes

unit=b | KB | k | KiB | MB | M | MiB | GB | G | GiB | TB | T | TiB
Specifies the units of memory used:
b
bytes
KB
kilobytes (1,000 bytes)
k or KiB
kibibytes (1024 bytes), the default
MB
megabytes (1,000,000 bytes)
M or MiB
mebibytes (1,048,576 bytes)
GB
gigabytes (1,000,000,000 bytes)
G or GiB
gibibytes (1,073,741,824 bytes)
TB
terabytes (1,000,000,000,000 bytes)
T or TiB
tebibytes (1,099,511,627,776 bytes

Usage

Parent elements

<memtune>

Child elements

None.

Example

This example configures a memory soft limit of 128 mebibytes:
<memtune>
    <soft_limit unit="M">128</soft_limit>
</memtune>