Linux Server Admin with Fexingo: Sysadmin, Bash, and Server Engineering

How to Use Linux Control Groups for Resource Limits


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Episode 37 of Linux Server Admin with Fexingo dives into control groups (cgroups) — the kernel feature that lets you limit CPU, memory, and I/O per process. Lucas and Luna walk through a real scenario: a runaway PHP-FPM pool consuming all server RAM on a shared hosting box. They explain how to set memory and CPU limits with cgroups v2, how to monitor usage with systemd-cgtop, and why this beats trusting nice values alone. Practical commands, real output, and a warning about the cgroup filesystem hierarchy. Perfect for sysadmins who want to stop one noisy neighbor from killing the whole server.

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