1 CPU Accounting Controller
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4 The CPU accounting controller is used to group tasks using cgroups and
5 account the CPU usage of these groups of tasks.
7 The CPU accounting controller supports multi-hierarchy groups. An accounting
8 group accumulates the CPU usage of all of its child groups and the tasks
9 directly present in its group.
11 Accounting groups can be created by first mounting the cgroup filesystem.
14 # mount -t cgroup -ocpuacct none /cgroups
16 With the above step, the initial or the parent accounting group
17 becomes visible at /cgroups. At bootup, this group includes all the
18 tasks in the system. /cgroups/tasks lists the tasks in this cgroup.
19 /cgroups/cpuacct.usage gives the CPU time (in nanoseconds) obtained by
20 this group which is essentially the CPU time obtained by all the tasks
23 New accounting groups can be created under the parent group /cgroups.
29 The above steps create a new group g1 and move the current shell
30 process (bash) into it. CPU time consumed by this bash and its children
31 can be obtained from g1/cpuacct.usage and the same is accumulated in
32 /cgroups/cpuacct.usage also.