On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
I am not aware of other software than systemd that utilizes cgroups and I don't think cgroups offer any benefits to normal desktop-PCs. For systemd, "cgroups are used to track service processes, instead of PIDs. This means that daemons cannot "escape" systemd even by double-forking." So it seems cgroups enable systemd to better handle starting and shutting down processes. -Ragnar- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
