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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2011-07-11 14:15:48 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2011-07-11 14:15:55 +0200
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@@ -10,26 +10,25 @@ directly present in its group.
Accounting groups can be created by first mounting the cgroup filesystem.
-# mkdir /cgroups
-# mount -t cgroup -ocpuacct none /cgroups
-
-With the above step, the initial or the parent accounting group
-becomes visible at /cgroups. At bootup, this group includes all the
-tasks in the system. /cgroups/tasks lists the tasks in this cgroup.
-/cgroups/cpuacct.usage gives the CPU time (in nanoseconds) obtained by
-this group which is essentially the CPU time obtained by all the tasks
+# mount -t cgroup -ocpuacct none /sys/fs/cgroup
+
+With the above step, the initial or the parent accounting group becomes
+visible at /sys/fs/cgroup. At bootup, this group includes all the tasks in
+the system. /sys/fs/cgroup/tasks lists the tasks in this cgroup.
+/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct.usage gives the CPU time (in nanoseconds) obtained
+by this group which is essentially the CPU time obtained by all the tasks
in the system.
-New accounting groups can be created under the parent group /cgroups.
+New accounting groups can be created under the parent group /sys/fs/cgroup.
-# cd /cgroups
+# cd /sys/fs/cgroup
# mkdir g1
# echo $$ > g1
The above steps create a new group g1 and move the current shell
process (bash) into it. CPU time consumed by this bash and its children
can be obtained from g1/cpuacct.usage and the same is accumulated in
-/cgroups/cpuacct.usage also.
+/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct.usage also.
cpuacct.stat file lists a few statistics which further divide the
CPU time obtained by the cgroup into user and system times. Currently