There is no way to use сgroups for running podman containers (rootless):
$ podman run -it --cpus=10 --memory=24g my_img
Error: container_linux.go:380: starting container process caused: process_linux.go:385: applying cgroup configuration for process caused: rootless needs no limits + no cgrouppath when no permission is granted for cgroups: mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/530a853f5d02c0a95c7764643a6b15d391b8fe405704f61adc72548d702ee96c: permission denied: OCI permission denied
/etc/rc.conf:
rc_cgroup_mode="unified"
rc_controller_cgroups="YES"
mount options:
# mount | grep cgroup
none on /sys/fs/cgroup type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate)
Related links:
containers/podman#11563