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Cgroups

cgroups (abbreviated from control groups) is a Linux kernel feature that limits, accounts for, and isolates the resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, etc.): § Controllers of a collection of processes.

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Developers
Tejun Heo, Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Waiman Long, Roman Gushchin, Chris Down et al.
License
GPL and LGPL
Operating system
Linux
Original authors
v1: Paul Menage, Rohit Seth, Memory Controller by Balbir Singh, CPU controller by Srivatsa Vaddagiri v2: Tejun Heo
Release
2007; 19 years ago (2007)
Type
System software

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Cgroups

Nodes55
Edges54
Triples82
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.036364
Components1

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Cgroups

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related to External links · 24
Cgroups → Abhishek Verma, API, April, Archived, August, Borg, David Oppenheimer, Eric Tune, Google, Hat Resource Management Guide, John WilkesJob Objects, Linux, Luis Pedrosa, LWN, Madhukar Korupolu, March, Namespaces, Netdev, Official Linux, Rami Rosen
related to Adoption · 19
Cgroups → CoreOS, Docker, Flatpak, For You, Hadoop, HTCondor, Jelastic, Kubernetes, Let Me Contain That, Linux, Linux Containers, LXC, Major Linux, Mesos, Mesosphere, November, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RHEL, Various
related to Versions · 15
Cgroups → APIs, As, Control Group, Development, It, Linux, March, Paul Menage, Redesigns, Rohit Seth, Tejun Heo, The, There, They, Unlike
related to Interfaces · 7
Cgroups → As, At, Both, For, In, Like, The
related to Features · 4
Cgroups → Linux-VServer, LXC, One, OpenVZ
related to Redesigns of v1 · 4
Cgroups → In, Linux, Redesign, The
Developers · 1
Cgroups → Tejun Heo, Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Waiman Long, Roman Gushchin, Chris Down et al.
License · 1
Cgroups → GPL and LGPL
Operating system · 1
Cgroups → Linux
Original authors · 1
Cgroups → v1: Paul Menage, Rohit Seth, Memory Controller by Balbir Singh, CPU controller by Srivatsa Vaddagiri v2: Tejun Heo

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cgroup kernel linux v2 system v1 processes control groups memory namespace hierarchy process controllers use one group namespaces version also

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CgroupsDevelopersTejun Heo, Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Waiman Long, Roman Gushchin, Chris Down et al.1.00infobox
CgroupsLicenseGPL and LGPL1.00infobox
CgroupsOperating systemLinux1.00infobox
CgroupsOriginal authorsv1: Paul Menage, Rohit Seth, Memory Controller by Balbir Singh, CPU controller by Srivatsa Vaddagiri v2: Tejun Heo1.00infobox
CgroupsRelease2007; 19 years ago (2007)1.00infobox
CgroupsTypeSystem software1.00infobox
CgroupsWebsiteCgroup v1, Cgroup v21.00infobox
CgroupsWritten inC1.00infobox
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxinstance ofand Flatpak.Major Linux distributions also adopted it0.80text
Cgroupsrelated to AdoptionVarious0.60section
Cgroupsrelated to AdoptionCoreOS0.60section
Cgroupsrelated to AdoptionDocker0.60section

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