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we have many containers in a proxmox OpenVZ host and each of them have resources allocated to it (CPU, Memory, etc..)

if i vzctl stop <CTID> a container, will the allocated resources be free out? or it will still be in use?

i've recently stopped quite a few containers but didnt pay attention to the free memory and CPU usage but they seems like didn't drop much. i wonder if the containers that i stopped but not deleted are still holding the resources i allocated to them?

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If a container is stopped, then it has no processes running. Therefore, a stopped container cannot possibly be consuming CPU or memory.

That said, even a stopped container can have its filesystem mounted or unmounted — perhaps you consider having the filesystem mounted "using a resource".

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