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cgroups
EntityQ307299· pop 11· linked from 258 articles

Also known as control groups, Linux cgroups, Linux control groups

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.) of a collection of processes.

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Software.name
cgroups
Software.title
cgroups
Software.author
v1: Paul Menage, Rohit Seth, Memory Controller by Balbir Singh, CPU controller by Srivatsa Vaddagiriv2: Tejun Heo
Software.developer
Tejun Heo, Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Waiman Long, Roman Gushchin, Chris Down et al.
Software.programming language
C
Software.operating system
Linux
Software.genre
System software
Software.license
GPL and LGPL
Software.website
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inception
2007-00-00
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