From the docs another comment linked: > The CPU request typically defines a weighting. If several different containers (cgroups) want to run on a contended sys

From the docs another comment linked: > The CPU request typically defines a weighting. If several different containers (cgroups) want to run on a contended system, workloads with larger CPU requests are allocated more CPU time than workloads with small requests. So I guess limits _would_ protect other pods to a degree. Though I agree that it doesn't seem worth the tradeoff of your pod getting constantly interrupted while the rest of the box is sitting idle