CPU percentage limits

The goal of the project is to add the CPU percentage usage accounting to the existing racct/rctl infrastructure. I want to make it possible for the system administrator to limit either a particular process, a particular user or a particular jail to for example 30% CPU.

  • CPU limits for process
  • CPU limits for user
  • CPU limits for jail
  • May 21 - June 10: add racct/rctl cpu usage accounting, applicable only to a thread, support only for one scheduler.
  • June 11 - June 24: add racct/rctl cpu usage accounting, applicable also to a user, support only for one scheduler.
  • June 25 - July 1: add support for the second scheduler
  • July 2 - July 8: testing
  • July 9 - July 13: Mid-term Evaluations
  • July 9 - July 22: switch implementation to the second approach using periodic racct_set() iterating over all processes from racctd
  • July 23 - August 5: revising/improving the percentage calculation algorithm
  • August 6 - August 12: documentation, testing
  • August 13: End of coding (soft)
  • August 13 - August 19: documentation, testing
  • August 20: End of coding (hard)

cd /usr/src
patch -p1 < patch-file.patch

options RACCT
options RCTL

rctl -a user:tom:pcpu:deny=60 Adds a 60% cpu limit for user tom.

rctl -a process:1657:pcpu:deny=70 Adds a 70% cpu limit for process with id 1657.

  • summerofcode2012/cpulimits.txt
  • Last modified: 2017/09/18 14:03
  • by KubilayKocak