Marian Marinov

Marian Marinov

Marian is a system administrator by heart. He is working with Linux for more than 20 years. Currently, he is Director of Engineering at Web Hosting Canada. He is a big fan of FOSS and regularly speaks at different FOSS conferences around the world. Marian also helps with the organization of OpenFest - Bulgaria's biggest FOSS conference. In his spare time, he teaches Linux system administration and Network security courses at Sofia University and SoftUni.

Sessions Montréal 2025

Managing cGroups with SystemD

Session en anglais - Intermédiaire

cGroups on their own are a complicated thing, but throw in there systemd and they become even harder. Now add to that, that there are 2 different ways to setup cgroup hierarchy and 2 versions of cgroups and the whole thing becomes almost impossible to understand.

Marian will try to guide you in this journey of properly setting up cGroups, when using SystemD

Understanding your memory usage

Session en anglais - Avancé

If you have ever experienced OOM(Out-of-Memory) situation you know that it is now a nice place to be.

This talk will walk you trough the basics of how the Linux OOM Killer works. How you can control it and what actually caused OOM on a linux machine.

You will see real world examples and also what preventative measures can be taken.

Sessions Montréal 2024