[Users] New features suggestion

[Dmitry Mishin]

On Wednesday 31 May 2006 18:18, Martin Dobrev wrote:
> Hi @ll,
>
> I was thinking about some kind of kernel/userspace extension to the
> OpenVZ project. Actually the full list of processes on the hostnode is a
> bit disturbing and could lead to some bad things like killing a VPS
> process by accident. It's almost the same with netstat - now we see all
> open ports from the hostnode and the VPSes in the same list. To avoid
> such situations I suggest the following:
>
> 1. To patch the kernel in order to have the possibility to filter easy
> hostnode's and VPS'es processes.
> 2. To patch some userspace programs, just to list the VPS related stuff.
>
> To be clear I'll give the following example with netstat. The program
> will still list the port stats, but _only_ from the hostnode. A new
> program, called vnetstat will list the ports, that are handled by the
> VPSes. In the mean time a new column can show the VPS ID too, just to
> have the possibility to easy find the corresponding server. The same
> idea can be used for ps too.
> Actually there is no need to separate the things in different programs.
> Let's say we'll patch the main program and include the VPS ID column in it.
>
> What do you thing about this? Any comments and suggestions are appreciated!
There was similar development some time ago, check 
http://download.openvz.org/contrib/
It will be great, if you'll port it to current procps version. After that, 
we'll include it to standard OpenVZ package set, as well, as proposed 
vnetstat.

>
> Best regards,
> Martin Dobrev
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Thanks,
Dmitry.