I see a discrepancy between my system and the documentation at https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/cpuacct.txt Specifically, the references in the following paragraph to /sys/fs/cgroup appear to be incorrect on my system, and should instead be references to /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct Doc: New accounting groups can be created under the parent group /sys/fs/cgroup. # cd /sys/fs/cgroup # mkdir g1 # echo $$ > g1/tasks The above steps create a new group g1 and move the current shell process (bash) into it. CPU time consumed by this bash and its children can be obtained from g1/cpuacct.usage and the same is accumulated in /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct.usage also. Best, Hamilton ____________________ root@4:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct# uname -a Linux 4 3.13.0-39-generic #66-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 28 13:30:27 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux root@4:/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct# lsb_release -a LSB Version: core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch:security-4.0-amd64:security-4.0-noarch:security-4.1-amd64:security-4.1-noarch Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html