Resource Control in Production at Meta - Kernel Recipes 2023

Explore the evolution and challenges of control groups (cgroups) in Linux resource management during this 42-minute conference talk from Kernel Recipes 2023. Dive into the fundamental changes introduced with cgroup v2 in Linux 4.5, examining its impact on system stability and throughput. Discover the complex and counter-intuitive effects observed in production environments, drawing from five years of experience implementing cgroup v2 on over a million machines at Meta. Gain valuable insights applicable to large-scale Linux deployments and learn about the current state of resource control in the broader tech landscape. Understand how cgroup v2 is transforming distributions and containerization technologies, presented by Chris Down.

Kernel Recipes 2023 - Resource control in production at Meta