List PIDs in a service cgroup

Every PID currently in the service slice; cross-check with systemctl status tree

cat /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/<name>.service/cgroup.procs; systemctl status <name>.service | grep CGroup
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More cgroups commands

  • Full cgroup tree with empty groups
    systemd-cgls --all --no-pager; systemd-cgtop -d 2 --depth=3

    cgls --all shows empty cgroups too; cgtop ranks slices by live CPU/mem/io

  • Legacy v1 ad-hoc cgroup
    cgcreate -g memory:/<name>; cgset -r memory.limit_in_bytes=512M <name>; cgexec -g memory:/<name> <command>

    libcgroup v1 throwaway limit. note: v2 unified hierarchy uses systemd-run --scope -p

  • Service memory accounting (cgroup v2)
    cat /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/<name>.service/memory.current /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/<name>.service/memory.max

    Live RSS vs hard limit for a systemd service; current near max = imminent OOM

  • Memory PSI pressure stall
    cat /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/<name>.service/memory.pressure

    PSI: time tasks stalled on memory reclaim; rising avg10 = thrashing before OOM

  • CPU throttling stats (cgroup v2)
    grep -E 'nr_throttled|throttled_usec' /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/<name>.service/cpu.stat

    Count and total usec a cgroup was CPU-throttled by cpu.max quota

all 8 cgroups commands