# Configure Default Memory Requests and Limits for a Namespace — What if you specify a container's request, but not its limit?

> Here's a manifest for a Pod that has one container. The container specifies a memory request, but not a limit Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/admin/resource/memory-defaults-pod-3.yaml --namespace=default-mem-exampl

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## Knowledge

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Here's a manifest for a Pod that has one container. The container specifies a memory request, but not a limit

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/admin/resource/memory-defaults-pod-3.yaml --namespace=default-mem-example
```

View the Pod's specification

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl get pod default-mem-demo-3 --output=yaml --namespace=default-mem-example
```

The output shows that the container's memory request is set to the value specified in the container's manifest. The container is limited to use no more than 512MiB of memory, which matches the default memory limit for the namespace.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
resources:
  limits:
    memory: 512Mi
  requests:
    memory: 128Mi
```

A LimitRange does not check the consistency of the default values it applies. This means that a default value for the _limit_ that is set by LimitRange may be less than the _request_ value specified for the container in the spec that a client submits to the API server. If that happens, the final Pod will not be scheduleable. See Constraints on resource limits and requests for more details.

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