3.9. Additional Resources
The definitive documentation for cgroup commands can be found in the manual pages provided with the libcgroup package.
Installed Documentation
The libcgroup-related Man Pages
cgclassify
(1) — thecgclassify
command is used to move running tasks to one or more cgroups.cgclear
(1) — thecgclear
command is used to delete all cgroups in a hierarchy.cgconfig.conf
(5) — cgroups are defined in thecgconfig.conf
file.cgconfigparser
(8) — thecgconfigparser
command parses thecgconfig.conf
file and mounts hierarchies.cgcreate
(1) — thecgcreate
command creates new cgroups in hierarchies.cgdelete
(1) — thecgdelete
command removes specified cgroups.cgexec
(1) — thecgexec
command runs tasks in specified cgroups.cgget
(1) — thecgget
command displays cgroup parameters.cgsnapshot
(1) — thecgsnapshot
command generates a configuration file from existing subsystems.cgred.conf
(5) —cgred.conf
is the configuration file for thecgred
service.cgrules.conf
(5) —cgrules.conf
contains the rules used for determining when tasks belong to certain cgroups.cgrulesengd
(8) — thecgrulesengd
service distributes tasks to cgroups.cgset
(1) — thecgset
command sets parameters for a cgroup.lscgroup
(1) — thelscgroup
command lists the cgroups in a hierarchy.lssubsys
(1) — thelssubsys
command lists the hierarchies containing the specified subsystems.