Hi,
Just to know: where is it better to propose hints? It seems this here
was uploaded (great!), whereas this I suggested on hints mailing list is
not and without any comment. Did I misunderstand some steps?
Thanks,
Best regards,
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Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
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Coordinateur du projet Linux From Scratch
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Le lundi 08 octobre 2012 à 13:14 -0500, Bruce Dubbs a écrit :
> Ragnar Thomsen wrote:
> > On Monday 08 October 2012 12:28:31 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> >> Interesting. Other than allowing systemd to run, what benefits does
> >> using cgroups give?
> >
> >>From Wikipedia:
> > cgroups (control groups) is a Linux kernel feature to limit, account and
> > isolate resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, etc.) of process groups.
> >
> > A control group is a collection of processes that are bound by the same
> > criteria. These groups can be hierarchical, where each group inherits limits
> > from its parent group. The kernel provides access to multiple controllers
> > (subsystems) through the cgroup interface. For instance, the "memory"
> > controller limits memory use, "cpuacct" accounts CPU usage, etc.
>
> I think most systems are used by a single user. There are exceptions,
> of course, but a Ubuntu or Gentoo or Debian system is generally used by
> one user. Does this feature really provide a benefit to the single user
> system?
>
> Servers that are dedicated to one task would also fall into the single
> user category. How do cgroups help here?
>
> I do have some experience with supercomputers that have hundreds of
> users. I can see how cgroups might be a benefit there, but those are
> only a very small percentage of the total number of Linux systems.
>
> -- Bruce
>
>
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