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by pm90 969 days ago
Not to mention there is all sorts of other limits that you can hit at scale just on the compute layer itself (eg max pids, file descriptors etc).

I don’t know if we can truly abstract away the underlying system. The best we can do is give a best effort approximation that works in most cases, but explicitly call out the limits when they are reached.

I suspect that this is just the bubbling up of the underlying physics limitation of having limited resources where compute is run.