[Lxc-users] How to make lxc-cgroup work?

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com
Thu Apr 4 15:44:34 UTC 2013


Quoting 陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen) (chenwj at iis.sinica.edu.tw):
> Hi all,
> 
>   Sorry for the newbie question. But I am confused on how to make cgroup
> work on lxc. When I type `lxc-cgroup`, the command gave me the error
> below:
> 
>   $ lxc-cgroup -n ubuntu cpu.shares
>   lxc-cgroup: open /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu//lxc/ubuntu/cpu.shares : No such file or directory
>   lxc-cgroup: failed to retrieve value of 'cpu.shares' for 'ubuntu'
> 
> The articles I read mostly do this at the beginning:
> 
>   $ mkdir /cgroup
>   $ echo "cgroup  /cgroup  cgroup  defaults   0   0" >> /etc/fstab
>   $ mount cgroup
> 
> I didn't do that because it seems the system already mount cgroup on
> /sys/fs. My question is how to make lxc-cgroup work? Should I create
> ubuntu directory under /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/lxc, then everything works?
> 
>   The other question I believe most relate to the virtual machine
> manager. When I edit lxc container through the vmm, there is an CPU
> limits option. Does that option work? Because from the top or
> /proc/cpuinfo I don't see the limit I set works.

Sorry I just saw the crossposting in the header :)  lxc-cgroup is
a part of the lxc.sf.net toolsuite, which mostly not compatible
with libvirt.  Libvirt-lxc uses a different cgroup layout scheme
so lxc-cgroup will be looking for paths which don't exist.

-serge




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