i/o disk limit

Bestbeast

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Hello,

I saw in some forums that lxc can limit i/o disk and wanted to know how to do it with proxmox.

Thanks
 
For lxc:

lsblk to get device:

└─sda3 8:3 0 3.7T 0 part
├─pve-root 251:0 0 10G 0 lvm /
├─pve-swap 251:1 0 2G 0 lvm [SWAP]
├─pve-data_tmeta 251:2 0 116M 0 lvm
│ └─pve-data-tpool 251:4 0 3.6T 0 lvm
│ ├─pve-data 251:5 0 3.6T 0 lvm
│ ├─pve-dir 251:6 0 50G 0 lvm
│ ├─pve-vm--60200--disk--1 251:7 0 600G 0 lvm

then
limit read to 10KB/s for container 60200
echo "251:7 10000" > /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/lxc/60200/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device

for iops use blkio.throttle.read_iops_device
 
For lxc:

lsblk to get device:

└─sda3 8:3 0 3.7T 0 part
├─pve-root 251:0 0 10G 0 lvm /
├─pve-swap 251:1 0 2G 0 lvm [SWAP]
├─pve-data_tmeta 251:2 0 116M 0 lvm
│ └─pve-data-tpool 251:4 0 3.6T 0 lvm
│ ├─pve-data 251:5 0 3.6T 0 lvm
│ ├─pve-dir 251:6 0 50G 0 lvm
│ ├─pve-vm--60200--disk--1 251:7 0 600G 0 lvm

then
limit read to 10KB/s for container 60200
echo "251:7 10000" > /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/lxc/60200/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device

for iops use blkio.throttle.read_iops_device
But I can not limit 1 by 1, I will need something automated like being this option in proxmox
 
Hi @zima

The output of lsblk in my proxmox shows a different thing (attached)

So what i should do to limit the io?

Thanks!

 

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Unfortunately LXC seems to have major issues for cpu limiting and now disk limiting. Not very good for hosting providers.

Anyway I think I got this disk limiting thing working. Did as per above. Do I need top stop and start the lxc container after doing this?
 
Seems to not save:

root@vz-cpt-1:/etc/pve/lxc# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/lxc/140/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device
251:49 50000

Then a few minutes later:

root@vz-cpt-1:/etc/pve/lxc# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/lxc/140/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device
root@vz-cpt-1:/etc/pve/lxc#
 
just checked on 2 containers and after +1h limit is still there and working.

Code:
Tue Nov 15 15:35:51 CET 2016
root@dreadnought:/# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/lxc/107/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device
251:19 50000
root@dreadnought:/# stat /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/lxc/107/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device
  File: ‘/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/lxc/107/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device’
  Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular empty file
Device: 1ah/26d Inode: 201         Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2016-11-15 14:31:23.386872849 +0100
Modify: 2016-11-15 14:31:23.386872849 +0100
Change: 2016-11-15 14:31:23.386872849 +0100
 Birth: -
 

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