throttling

DevOps interview questions tagged throttling, across every topic.

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☸️ Containers & Kubernetes

Requests are what the scheduler believes, limits are what the kernel enforcesTwo numbers that look like a pair are read by two different systems for two different purposes. Requests decide placement and are a claim about the future. Limits decide runtime enforcement and are a cgroup setting. Nearly every strange capacity problem in Kubernetes comes from conflating them.

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