Resource Control Groups Prerequisites

Updated

To configure resource control groups, review the following requirements :

  • Resource control groups are supported for the following operating systems and packages:

Operating system

Package

Linux

Control Groups (cgroups)

Solaris

Projects

AIX

Workload Manager (WLM)

Note

The Resource Control Groups feature automatically switches WLM to active mode if it is not already active.

HP-UX

Process Resource Manager (PRM)

  • For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x or lower and CentOS 7.x or lower versions, the libcgroup package might not be installed during the operating system installation. To install the libcgroup package, run the following command:

    sudo yum install libcgroup
        
    
  • For Oracle Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 versions, to install the libcgroup-tools RPM package, run the following command:

    sudo yum install libcgroup-tools
        
    
  • For SLES 12.3 and older versions, to install the libcgroup1 and libcgroup-tools package, run the following commands:

    # sudo zypper install libcgroup1
    # sudo zypper install libcgroup-tools
        
    

    Also, verify that you have the /etc/cgconfig.conf file on the server.

    Note

    Configuring resource control groups is not supported on SLES 12.4 and later versions.

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