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resource-limits
- Apr 9, 2026 Requests, Limits, and the Two Different Jobs They Do A request is a scheduling promise and a limit is an enforcement ceiling; conflating them produces nodes that look full but throttle, and pods that are evicted for reasons nobody expected. cloud infrastructure
- Mar 25, 2026 Control Groups v2: How Memory and CPU Limits Are Enforced Where the kernel charges a page to a cgroup, what happens when the charge exceeds the limit, and why CPU bandwidth control throttles rather than blocks. operating systems
- Jul 30, 2025 What Occupancy Actually Counts Why occupancy is a ratio of resident warps to a hardware maximum rather than a utilization measure, and how registers, shared memory, and block limits each cap it. gpu computing
- Jan 11, 2024 File Descriptor Lifetime, Inheritance, and Table Exhaustion What a descriptor actually indexes, how the process and system tables share file descriptions, and why closing in the wrong process leaves the resource open. systems programming