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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Resource Management Guide

Managing system resources on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Edition 2

Martin Prpič

Red Hat Engineering Content Services

Rüdiger Landmann

Red Hat Engineering Content Services

Douglas Silas

Red Hat Engineering Content Services

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Abstract
Managing system resources on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Preface
1. Document Conventions
1.1. Typographic Conventions
1.2. Pull-quote Conventions
1.3. Notes and Warnings
2. Getting Help and Giving Feedback
2.1. Do You Need Help?
2.2. We Need Feedback!
1. Introduction to Control Groups (Cgroups)
1.1. How Control Groups Are Organized
1.2. Relationships Between Subsystems, Hierarchies, Control Groups and Tasks
1.3. Implications for Resource Management
2. Using Control Groups
2.1. The cgconfig Service
2.1.1. The /etc/cgconfig.conf File
2.2. Creating a Hierarchy and Attaching Subsystems
2.3. Attaching Subsystems to, and Detaching Them From, an Existing Hierarchy
2.4. Unmounting a Hierarchy
2.5. Creating Control Groups
2.6. Removing Control Groups
2.7. Setting Parameters
2.8. Moving a Process to a Control Group
2.8.1. The cgred Daemon
2.9. Starting a Process in a Control Group
2.9.1. Starting a Service in a Control Group
2.9.2. Process Behavior in the Root Control Group
2.10. Generating the /etc/cgconfig.conf File
2.10.1. Blacklisting Parameters
2.10.2. Whitelisting Parameters
2.11. Obtaining Information About Control Groups
2.11.1. Finding a Process
2.11.2. Finding a Subsystem
2.11.3. Finding Hierarchies
2.11.4. Finding Control Groups
2.11.5. Displaying Parameters of Control Groups
2.12. Unloading Control Groups
2.13. Additional Resources
3. Subsystems and Tunable Parameters
3.1. blkio
3.1.1. Proportional Weight Division Configuration Options
3.1.2. I/O Throttling Configuration Options
3.1.3. Common Configuration Option
3.1.4. Example Usage
3.2. cpu
3.3. cpuacct
3.4. cpuset
3.5. devices
3.6. freezer
3.7. memory
3.8. net_cls
3.9. ns
3.10. Additional Resources
A. Revision History