Using cgroups to limit I/O

Re:Using cgroups to limit I/O by loeg on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:05AM (#15507952)

Thanks! I use cgroups (manually) to memory constrain applications that I know leak memory (e.g., rtorrent, chrome at one time). This looks like a nice way of making that a bit less manual.

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Re:Using cgroups to limit I/O by geoka9 on Sunday October 29, 2017 @06:16PM (#15581781)

No problem. I've just checked and it looks like libcgroup is not maintained any more and fallen behind the cgroups development. This may work instead:

systemd-run --scope -p MemoryMax=4M rtorrent

You can also set other quotas - `man systemd.resource-control` for more info.

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Re:Using cgroups to limit I/O by nerpderp83 on Thursday October 19, 2017 @02:34PM (#15510409)

When they hit a threshold, send them a check point event and kill and restart. Too bad chrome didn't thundering heard so hard when it comes back to life.

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