Google: 'We'll track EVERY task on EVERY data center server'

Chip-level performance tracking in thousand-server Googly clusters

Google has wired its worldwide fleet of servers up with monitoring technology that inspects every task running on every machine, and eventually hopes to use this data to selectively throttle or even kill processes that cause disruptions for other tasks running on the same CPU.…

via The Register - Cloud

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