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title: cgroup (control group)
id: cgroup
date: 2019-06-25
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short_description: >
  A group of Linux processes with optional resource isolation, accounting and limits.

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tags:
- fundamental
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A group of Linux processes with optional resource isolation, accounting and limits.

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cgroup is a Linux kernel feature that limits, accounts for, and isolates the resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, network) for a collection of processes.