On Friday, November 20, 2020 8:29:33 PM CET Jacky Alcine wrote: > This is exciting! Is it needed to explicitly put "cgroups" in the name? > (What I'm really asking is if there's a way to have this work in a > cross-platform way)
Yes, this library takes advantage of cgroups resource control, and nothing truly comparable exists outside of linux. It does so by leveraging systemd which is also a requirement. The process grouping part can probably be ported however. Windows and Mac OS X both have this kind of thing, but it might require escalation. I currently don't have plans to make this a platform independent library but it could be a long term goal. > On Fri, Nov 20, 2020, at 05:55, Henri Chain wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > KCgroups has been moved to KDEReview ! > > What is that, you ask ? It's a library that wraps the systemd dbus API to > > expose a higher-level concept of desktop application and allow control of > > its system resource usage (CPU, RAM, IO, etc). > > > > It relies on the recent ability of plasma to launch applications in their > > own systemd scopes, with correspond to cgroups and provides a more robust > > definition for an application (more details at > > https://lwn.net/Articles/834329/ ) . > > > > The main use of the library is to expose related resource control settings > > for those applications, at a user space level that other KDE applications > > and frameworks can use, including consumption straight from QML as > > demonstrated in the test application. > > > > KCgroups is intended to become a (Tier 1) framework. A first user of this > > library might be the foreground window CPU booster daemon that is > > available > > here: > > https://invent.kde.org/libraries/kcgroups/-/tree/work/foreground-booster > > > > Packages are already available for both Neon and Arch Linux. > > > > Looking forward to your feedback and ideas for using this, > > Henri