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How do CPUShares work across parent and children cgroups?

Redhat has a great blog post describing CPUShares, but it assumes processes reside in leaf CGroups, and doesn't discuss how CPU time is calculated for processes that reside in branch CGroups. For ...
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Single-node SLURM server: restrict interactive CPU usage

I have SLURM setup on a single node, which is also a 'login node'. I would like to restrict interactive CPU usage, e.g. outside the scheduling system. I found the following article which suggests to ...
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Automating scheduling and dispatch of compute jobs by different users

I'm going to set up a Linux server (probably CentOS) in a computer science department. The server will be used as a compute server, by people doing research on GPU computing, bioinformatics, or AI. ...
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Correctly implement and test resource limitations for Apache/NGINX

I am assigned the task to limit the resources (Maximum memory usage and CPU weight) for Apache2 and nginx according to usage statistics, and test that limitation. For resource limitations, I've ...
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Managing Resource Usage Limits on Linux Computers

Hello everyone I am wondering if there is a nice administrative tool out there to limit user resource consumption in a Linux environment. To give more detail about my issue, I am currently trying to ...
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Memory Utilization Best Practices

I'm running several Linux-based VMs (vApps, actually) that have varying amounts of memory assigned to them. Some have databases, some web servers, etc. While some are using less than 40% of their ...
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Postgres 9.3 on Linux - Resource utilization - Multiple vs one service services

I'm consolidating multiple Linux boxes running Postgres into one box. Given the way Postgres handles resource utilization, would one single server service handling all the databases provide a much ...
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CloudLinux equivalent for Windows

Is there any configuration or software solutions that would provide similar resource throttling per user like CloudLinux does for Linux? We currently run game servers on Windows 2008 OS and the major ...
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Understanding CPU Throttle

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Open source software for resource management

I recently wrote some scientific software designed to be run from the command line, and am now working on creating a web front end for that software to make it more accessible to scientists who aren't ...
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How To Create User's Virtualization Environment

what i want to do is to create user virtulized environment (online) i want to create an environment that my user connect to my server online & they will have there own online pc .. may be its ssh ...
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How to run a program for a limited time as a specified user without leaving a trace on the linux system? [closed]

I have to run a non-trusted, third-party application on a linux server. The program should be run as a specified user for a limited time, for example 30s. During this period, the program can use all ...
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Linux: Limit CPU and memory consumption of a group of processes

On a modern Ubuntu Server machine we need to host about twenty web-applications. (More apps would be added later.) Each application is a nginx virtual host, which talks to a group of identical long-...
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Running display of resource usage grouped by user?

We've recently restructured part of our web hosting setup; splitting a series of applications over a number of users on a single (virtual) machine, to better be able to spot resource usage problems ...
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Set max file limit on a running process

I have a long running process that is eventually going to hit the max open file limit. I know how to change that after it fails, but is there a way to change that for the running process, from the ...
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fork: Resource temporarily unavailable running JVM

I'm running a Tomcat 6 instance on a 34 GB EC2 instance. I've been struggling to keep the memory down but this thing services a lot of requests and the heap frequently gets up to 13 GB. But the heap ...
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Is it possible to set up a default user quota for users in a specific group in Linux?

I'd like to be able to set up a default user quota for members of a group if they don't have a specific user quota defined. The idea is that by default, they'd have this standard quota but if a ...
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Limiting resource usage per user in Red Hat Linux

I need to limit CPU, memory and network bandwidth usage for a bulk of processes on per-user basis. User is in fact just logic grouping for several daemon processes and not real humans. So different ...
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