It won’t burn through the budget faster by having more cores. You’re given a fixed time-slice of the whole CPU (in K8s, caveats below), whether you use all the

It won’t burn through the budget faster by having more cores. You’re given a fixed time-slice of the whole CPU (in K8s, caveats below), whether you use all the cores or just one doesn’t particularly matter. On one hand, it would be would nice to be able to limit workloads on K8s to a subset of cores too, on the other, I can only imagine how much catastrophically complex that would make scheduling and optimisation. Caveats: up to the number of cores exposed to your VM. I also believe the later versions of K8s let you do some degree of workload-core pinning and I don’t yet know how that interacts with core availability .