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A set of tools for paravirtualization
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A feature that isolates and limits resource usage of processes
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A friendly IPtables manager written in C
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A collection of tools that prevents malware using mandatory access controls policies
EXPLANATION
Cgroups (abbreviated from control groups) is a Linux
kernel feature that limits, accounts for, and isolates the resource
usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, network, etc.) of a collection of
processes.
If you are using Docker give it a try! This may be useful for hungry Java apps ;)
See more at
Wikipedia and
kernel.org