operating-systems virtualisation
Definition
Cgroup
A cgroup is a Linux kernel feature that organises processes into hierarchical groups and limits or monitors their consumption of resources such as CPU time, system memory, and network bandwidth.
Creation
Creating cgroups
Cgroups can be created by mounting and writing to the cgroup virtual filesystem (
cgroupfs), or by using utilities fromlibcgroupsuch ascgcreateandcgexec.