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the genesis of cfs_quota and cpu throttling in general has to do with modulating power consumption of a chip, iirc. It's truly a fallacy that limits are needed
by fierro 6y ago
the genesis of cfs_quota and cpu throttling in general has to do with modulating power consumption of a chip, iirc. It's truly a fallacy that limits are needed to prevent noisy neighbor type stuff.
- dilyevsky 6y agoHuh didn’t know about reason behind cfs quota, thanks. Yeah it always seemed of dubious usefulness to me. Considering i can probably trash cpu caches without using much cycles and do other things with disk and network io I’m a bit surprised people worry about cfs quota so much