Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Håkon Alstadheim" <hakon@×××××××××××××××.no>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Per-process-tree memory quotas?
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 11:52:09
Message-Id: 1a216b1c-3ff3-9a11-637d-041ec19c899d@alstadheim.priv.no
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Per-process-tree memory quotas? by Mick
1 Den 20. okt. 2018 11:08, skrev Mick:
2 > On Saturday, 20 October 2018 05:13:13 BST Andrew Udvare wrote:
3 >>> On 2018-10-19, at 23:24, Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net> wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> How do I do this?
6 >> Cgroups were sort of invented for this reason. Yes it requires Systemd.
7 > No, I don't think systemd is obligatory, although it may be for archlinux?
8 >
9 >
10 >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/cgroups
11 >>
12 >> I too have 32 GiB of RAM and I'm curious how Chromium acts under a
13 >> constrained environment, or what limits can be placed especially on the
14 >> CPU. In my experience using Chrome inside VMs, it acts very poorly.
15 > Have a look here instead for the Gentoo alternative:
16 >
17 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC/CGroups
18 >
19 "support for userlevel cgroups" is on the list of possible improvements
20 there. This means some reading and manual setup to limit your browser
21 processes. Definitely doable though.
22 Start with turning on CGroups in /etc/rc.conf, and take it from there.