Red Hat Enterprise Linux Can Cause Slow Response from Systems When Work is Limited to Fewer Than All Available Cores

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Issue

  • If an application purposely executes new processes on a limited subset of available CPU cores, and does not limit other systems resources accordingly, the system can suffer from slow response time and lack of stability

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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