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2018-10-31

Facebook's new suite of open source Linux kernel components and tools

Facebook has just announced a bunch of useful Linux kernel components and tools; specifically, useful for shared servers, which may include HPC servers. I could see oomd and cgroup2, in particular, being useful. Oomd takes out-of-memory handling into userspace and tries to take corrective action before an OOM occurs in kernel. Cgroup2 seems to be an successor to cgroups, which allows controlling the amount of system resources assigned to groups of workloads.