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CFS quotas and throttling: what a CPU limit really enforces

A CPU limit bounds CPU bandwidth over an accounting period; runnable work can be throttled when the group or an ancestor exhausts its quota. This concept gives the exact arithmetic, the diagnostic reading of cpu.stat, and the remediation debate that separates senior candidates.

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