# Missing memory limit

A container that does not set a memory limit, or a Compose memory limit of 0.

Area: Reliability

## What you need to supply

The workload text. The check does not measure live memory use.

## If it reports a finding

Medium severity. The suggested next step is to set a memory limit so one workload cannot consume the host.

## What this does not prove

A limit applied by a cluster policy outside the submitted text is not visible to this check.

## Compose setting that this check is written to notice

```
mem_limit: 0
```

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