


For example, if a process has 1,000 shares and the sum of all the shares is 3,000, it will get a third of the total time. Usually, cpu_shares can be any number, and Linux uses the ratio between each cgroups’ shares number to the total of all the shares to prioritize what processes get scheduled on the CPU. CPU shares (cpu_share) are a Linux Control Groups (cgroups) feature. Once it has determined what Node to run it on (one that first survived the Filter and then had the highest Score), it sets up the Linux CPU shares to roughly align with the mCPU metrics. If none have enough unrequested CPU/memory, the Pod is left unscheduled in a Pending state until there is. It then filters out any Nodes that do not have enough unrequested resources to fulfill the requests in the filter stage of scheduling. Requests serve two purposes in Kubernetes: Scheduling availabilityįirst, they tell Kubernetes how much CPU needs to be available (as in not already requested by other Pods/containers, not actually idle at that time on the given Node(s)).

Current situation by programming language.In another article in the series, we discussed the Out of Memory kills and CPU throttling that can affect your cluster.īut, all in all, Limits and Requests are not silver bullets for CPU management and there are cases where other alternatives might be a better option. In a prior blog post, we discussed the basics of Kubernetes Limits and Requests: they serve an important role to manage resources in cloud environments.
