How to create a cgroup

If you want to monitor a specific process (or group of process) with cgroup V1, you have to create a cgroup with perf_event controller and add the process you want to monitor to this cgroup.

You can easly do this with the following command :

• To create the cgroup:

cgcreate -g perf_event:new_cgroup_name

with new_cgroup_name the name of the cgroup you want to create (this will be the name wich will identify power consumption of you process).

• To add your process to the newly created cgroup:

cgclassify -g perf_event:new_cgroup_name PID

with PID, the pid of the process you want to monitor. If you want to monitor a program composed of many process, replace PID with $(pidof program_name).