Article 6BTC6 [$] Fighting the zombie-memcg invasion

[$] Fighting the zombie-memcg invasion

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Memory control groups (or "memcgs") allow an administrator to manage thememory resources given to the processes running on a system. Often,though, memcgs seem to have memory-use problems of their own, and that hasmade them into a recurring Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-ManagementSummit topic since at least 2019. The topic returned at the 2023 event with a focus on thehandling of shared, anonymous memory. The quirks associated with thismemory type, it seems, can subject systems to an unpleasant sort of zombieinvasion; a session in the memory-management track led by T.J. Mercier,Yosry Ahmed, and Chris Li discussed possible solutions.
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