Introduction to Cgroups, the Linux Control Group

Posted by linuxaria on Oct 5, 2011 3:47 PM EDT
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Cgroups is present in the official Linux kernel 2.6.24 (late 2007), still he’s not much know or used (at least for what i know). In this article I’ll give you an overview of this powerful Linux tool to control how much CPU, memory, disk I/O or network I/O each process or user can use in your server.

So in short cgroups it’s a feature to limit, account and isolate resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, etc.) of process groups.

Let’s see how.

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