Troubleshoot a Worker Service That Keeps Disappearing
A systemd-managed worker process starts cleanly, prints a few heartbeat lines, then silently vanishes - over and over again. Diagnose why the process keeps dying and stabilize the service.
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A systemd-managed worker process starts cleanly, prints a few heartbeat lines, then silently vanishes - over and over again. Diagnose why the process keeps dying and stabilize the service.
Practice pausing and resuming a running container: start a resource-hungry container, pause it, inspect its state, and then unpause it back to life.
Practice pausing (freeze) and resuming (thaw) a resource-hungry Linux process using the cgroup v2 freezer mechanism.
Prove your SRE skills - deploy a resource-greedy application to a Kubernetes cluster and make it run for a while without disrupting the service.
Start a Linux process and limit its CPU and memory usage with cgroups.