From 1e4f871bcc3afde5adf7eaf64231a60074fe2f2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carol Willing Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 04:33:01 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] update documentation on resource limits --- docs/source/reference/spawners.md | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/source/reference/spawners.md b/docs/source/reference/spawners.md index 1df2895f..4610cd5c 100644 --- a/docs/source/reference/spawners.md +++ b/docs/source/reference/spawners.md @@ -170,9 +170,12 @@ If you are interested in building a custom spawner, you can read [this tutorial] Some spawners of the single-user notebook servers allow setting limits or guarantees on resources, such as CPU and memory. To provide a consistent experience for sysadmins and users, we provide a standard way to set and -discover these resource limits and guarantees, such as for memory and CPU. For -the limits and guarantees to be useful, the spawner must implement support for -them. +discover these resource limits and guarantees, such as for memory and CPU. +For the limits and guarantees to be useful, **the spawner must implement +support for them**. For example, LocalProcessSpawner, the default +spawner, does not support limits and guarantees. One of the spawners +that supports limits and guarantees is the `systemdspawner`. + ### Memory Limits & Guarantees