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Building Burstables: CPU slicing with cgroups
Burstable VMs run on a fraction of CPU and burst to a higher level of CPU usage to support occasional usage spikes. To implement them, we leveraged Control Groups v2 (cgroups v2), a Linux kernel feature that helps manage resource usage. We thought our open-source implementation of burstable VMs might be interesting…
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Infrastructure & DevOpsSystems & Performance2025
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| May 2, 2025 | Building Burstables: CPU slicing with cgroups by msarnowicz | 130 | 23 |
