The process limit

A container can have 1024 processes and threads at most.

An app starts processes and threads. This is normal.

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The pids limit counts the processes and the threads of one container together. The default is 1024.

At the limit, fork fails in the container. A fork bomb stops there.

Change the limit

Flag of `ferryd`	Default	Off
`--pids-limit`	1024	`--pids-limit 0`

Some apps run thousands of threads. For them, start ferryd with a higher --pids-limit.

Render plans

Ferry changes each Render plan into a memory limit and a CPU limit.

Log rotation

Docker keeps 3 log files of 10 MiB for each container. The log cannot fill the disk.