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| author | Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> | 2011-06-15 21:59:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-06-16 06:52:50 +0200 |
| commit | f6e07d38078e82a6aeaae00bb134591ef5ac1167 (patch) | |
| tree | 9ebadc1c483a5d96b3d33141a229397c4f594df5 /Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | |
| parent | Documentation: update kmemleak supported archs (diff) | |
| download | linux-f6e07d38078e82a6aeaae00bb134591ef5ac1167.tar.xz linux-f6e07d38078e82a6aeaae00bb134591ef5ac1167.zip | |
Documentation: update cgroupfs mount point
According to commit 676db4af0430 ("cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to
mount cgroupfs on") the canonical mountpoint for the cgroup filesystem
is /sys/fs/cgroup. Hence, this should be used in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 510d64570d60..ffec2416aa74 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -264,16 +264,17 @@ b. Enable CONFIG_RESOURCE_COUNTERS c. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR d. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP (to use swap extension) -1. Prepare the cgroups -# mkdir -p /cgroups -# mount -t cgroup none /cgroups -o memory +1. Prepare the cgroups (see cgroups.txt, Why are cgroups needed?) +# mount -t tmpfs none /sys/fs/cgroup +# mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory +# mount -t cgroup none /sys/fs/cgroup/memory -o memory 2. Make the new group and move bash into it -# mkdir /cgroups/0 -# echo $$ > /cgroups/0/tasks +# mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/0 +# echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/0/tasks Since now we're in the 0 cgroup, we can alter the memory limit: -# echo 4M > /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes +# echo 4M > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/0/memory.limit_in_bytes NOTE: We can use a suffix (k, K, m, M, g or G) to indicate values in kilo, mega or gigabytes. (Here, Kilo, Mega, Giga are Kibibytes, Mebibytes, Gibibytes.) @@ -281,11 +282,11 @@ mega or gigabytes. (Here, Kilo, Mega, Giga are Kibibytes, Mebibytes, Gibibytes.) NOTE: We can write "-1" to reset the *.limit_in_bytes(unlimited). NOTE: We cannot set limits on the root cgroup any more. -# cat /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes +# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/0/memory.limit_in_bytes 4194304 We can check the usage: -# cat /cgroups/0/memory.usage_in_bytes +# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/0/memory.usage_in_bytes 1216512 A successful write to this file does not guarantee a successful set of |