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Cgroups are a lot more than just "namespaces". It is also the mechanism by which you can constrain how much CPU, Memory, Network Bandwidth, Storage IOPS or Th
by tytso 3y ago
Cgroups are a lot more than just "namespaces". It is also the mechanism by which you can constrain how much CPU, Memory, Network Bandwidth, Storage IOPS or Throughput, etc., processes in a particular cgroup or container can use.
- lproven 3y agoThat's fair. But I think the core point here is that, as with much of the Plan 9 design, by including a more elegant and powerful abstraction in the core design, the need for a much more powerful and much more complicated abstraction layer on was obviated, if not eliminated.