Cgroups

Overview

  • Cgroups group processes so that you can define ressource limits and get stats for it

  • Processes are called tasks

  • Every process can only be in one cgroup

  • A cgroup can inherit the properties of another cgroup

mkdir /cgroup/
mount -t cgroup -o memory nodev /cgroup/

Installation

yum install libcgroup

Create a new cgroup

  • Temporarily

mkdir /cgroup/<groupname>
  • Or

cgcreate -a <user> -g memory,cpu:<groupname>
  • Permanent by editing /etc/cgconfig.conf

group <name> {
  [<permissions>]
  <controller> {
      <param name> = <param value>;
   }
}
  • e.g.

mount {
      cpuset  = /cgroup/cpuset;
      cpu     = /cgroup/cpu;
      cpuacct = /cgroup/cpuacct;
      memory  = /cgroup/memory;
      devices = /cgroup/devices;
      freezer = /cgroup/freezer;
      net_cls = /cgroup/net_cls;
      blkio   = /cgroup/blkio;
}

group students {
  blkio {
    blkio.throttle.read_bps_device = "1000";
    blkio.throttle.write_bps_device = "1000";
  }
}
  • Dont forget to restart the cgconfig service in order to load the changes!

service cgconfig restart

Map user and processes to a cgroup

  • Edit /etc/cgrules.conf

<user> <subsystems> <cgroup>
<user>:<command> <subsystems> <cgroup>
  • names with a prepending @ are groups

Manually starting a process in a cgroup

cgexec -g <subsystems>:<cgroup> <command> <arguments>

Define limits

  • For memory

memory.limit_in_bytes = 1000000
  • Cpu time (default 1024 is 100% so 100 is ~10%)

cpu.shares = 100
  • CPU pinning

cpuset.cpus = 0-5,14,15
  • Storage time (100% is value of 1024)

blkio.weight = 512