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I am trying to use cgroups in order to limit the CPU usage. I am using this guide https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Resource_Management_Guide/sec-cpu_and_memory-use_case.html

My /etc/cgconfig.conf file is the following

mount {
cpu     = /mnt/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct;
cpuacct = /mnt/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct;
}

group wheel {
    cpu {
            cpu.shares="800";
    }
    cpuacct {
            cpuacct.usage="0";
    }
}
 group test1 {
    cpu {
            cpu.shares="200";
    }
    cpuacct {
            cpuacct.usage="0";
    }
}

My cgrules.conf is the following

@wheel cpu,cpuacct wheel
@test1 cpu,cpuacct test1

Althouth when I try to run:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1024k

I see that the cpu usage in 100% for the users belong to group wheel and test1

I have checked the services with service cgconfig status and is up 

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cgconfig.service; disabled)
Active: active (exited) since Mon 2015-03-02 17:29:19 EET; 7min ago
Process: 1240 ExecStop=/usr/sbin/cgclear -l /etc/cgconfig.conf -e   (code=exited, status=3)
Process: 56536 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cgconfigparser -l /etc/cgconfig.conf -s         1664 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 56536 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Can anyone tell me what am I doing wrong? Thanks a lot

SteveGr2015
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  • Can you add output of `top` command when you're running `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1024k`? – kirill-a Mar 02 '15 at 16:36
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    `cgroup` shares will only limit CPU resources *when there is competition for them*. If, in your example, `test1` wants CPU resources, and `wheel` is not using any, then there is no competition, and `test1` can have whatever it wants. If both are demanding resources, then you should see the share-based limiting taking affect. – twalberg Mar 02 '15 at 17:36
  • Hello the output is the following: ` `PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND ` `51535 user1 20 0 108956 1680 556 R 100.0 0.0 0:27.74 dd` `51557 user2 20 0 108956 1676 552 R 100.0 0.0 0:23.57 dd` user1 belongs to wheel group and user2 to test1 group – SteveGr2015 Mar 02 '15 at 17:40
  • @twalberg Thank you very much for your answer. I ran the `dd` commant for both users at the same time. I put also above the result of the top command. Do you believe that I should try with another command? – SteveGr2015 Mar 02 '15 at 17:45

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cpu cgroup is work conserving, ie. a task would not be stopped from using cpu if there is no competition. If you want to put a hard limit on amount of cpu a task can use, try setting cpu.cfs_quota_us and cpu.cfs_period_us.

Look at the documentation here.

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