ChipsDan Luuover 4 years ago
The container throttling problem
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Twitter CPU-bound services fail at 50% reserved container CPU utilization due to Linux CFS scheduler defaults. Load imbalance across shards makes practical limits even lower. Config tuning can deliver 1.5x to 2x capacity gains for large services, yielding millions in annual savings.
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