update documentation on resource limits

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Carol Willing
2017-12-18 04:33:01 -08:00
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@@ -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