lxc-cgroup(1) - Linux man page

Name

lxc-cgroup - manage the control group associated with a container

Synopsis

lxc-start -n name subsystem [value] .SH "DESCRIPTION"

lxc-cgroup get or set value from the control group associated with the container name. If no [value] is specified, the value of the subsystem is displayed, otherwise it is set. The lxc-cgroup does not assume the correctness of the subsystem name, it is up to the user to specify the right subsystem name.

Options

subsystem

Specify the subsystem control group name.
[value]
Specify the subsystem control group value to be set.

Common Options

These options are common to most of lxc commands.

-?, -h, --help
Print a longer usage message than normal.
--usage
Give the usage message
-q, --quiet
mute on
-o, --logfile=FILE
Output to an alternate log FILE. The default is no log.
-l, --logpriority=LEVEL
Set log priority to LEVEL. The default log priority is ERROR. Possible values are : FATAL, CRIT, WARN, ERROR, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG.

Note that this option is setting the priority of the events log in the alternate log file. It do not have effect on the ERROR events log on stderr.

-n, --name=NAME
Use container identifier NAME. The container identifier format is an alphanumeric string.

Examples

lxc-cgroup -n foo devices.list

display the allowed devices to be used.
lxc-cgroup -n foo cpuset.cpus "0,3"
assign the processors 0 and 3 to the container.

Diagnostic

The container was not found

The container is not running.

See Also

lxc(1), lxc-create(1), lxc-destroy(1), lxc-start(1), lxc-stop(1), lxc-execute(1), lxc-kill(1), lxc-console(1), lxc-monitor(1), lxc-wait(1), lxc-cgroup(1), lxc-ls(1), lxc-ps(1), lxc-info(1), lxc-freeze(1), lxc-unfreeze(1), lxc-attach(1), lxc.conf(5)

Author

Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>

Referenced By

lxc(7), lxc-checkpoint(1), lxc-restart(1)