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+title: cgroup (control group)
+id: cgroup
+date: 2019-06-25
+full_link:
+short_description: >
+  A group of Linux processes with optional resource isolation, accounting and limits.
+
+aka:
+tags:
+- fundamental
+---
+A group of Linux processes with optional resource isolation, accounting and limits.
+
+<!--more--> 
+
+cgroup is a Linux kernel feature that limits, accounts for, and isolates the resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, network) for a collection of processes.