cgroup

Related terms

• Namespace — A kernel feature that gives a process its own view of a resource such as PIDs, mounts, network or hostname.
• Container — A normal Linux process (or group) started with its own namespaces and cgroup limits, usually from an image.
• OOM killer — The kernel mechanism that kills a process when memory runs out, system-wide or inside a cgroup that hit memory.max.

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