# Introducing Process Exhaustion: How to scale your services without overwhelming your systems

DevFeed: [Introducing Process Exhaustion: How to scale your services without overwhelming your systems](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-process-exhaustion-how-to-scale-your-services-without-overwhelming-your-systems-11679.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gremlin.com/blog/process-exhaustion-scale-services-without-overwhelming-systems>)

Author: Andre Newman

Published: 2024-03-11T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Gremlin Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gremlin-blog.md>)

Topics: [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Containers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/containers.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>)

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## AI overview

This article introduces Gremlin's Process Exhaustion experiment, which tests system resilience when many processes run concurrently. It explains how process counts affect reliability, resource consumption, and application performance, including the tradeoffs of configuring Apache's ServerLimit. The article also describes why process limits matter in modern containerized, Kubernetes, and serverless environments.

## Source excerpt

Gremlin's Process Exhaustion experiment lets you test how resilient your systems are when many processes are running. Learn how it works and why you should use it in our latest blog.