For some time, I have been wanting to read more on Linux Cgroups to explore possibilities of using it to control Ill behaving applications. At this time, while I’m stuck in travel, it has given me some time to look into it.
In our Free Software world, most of the things are do-o-cracy, i.e. when your use case is not the common one, it is typically you who has to explore possible solutions. It could be Bugs , Feature Requests or as is in my case, performance issues. But that is not to assume that we do not have better quality software in Free Software world. Infact, in my opinion, some of the tools available are far much more better than the competition in terms of features, and to add a sweetener (or nutritional facts) to it is the fact that Free Software liberates the user.
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