[Users] Beancounter/Accounting file question

[Kir Kolyshkin]

On 07/08/2015 10:11 AM, Mark Johanson wrote:
> I was curious when the beancounter/accounting ( /proc/bc ) information is reset?
> Ie daily, weekly, monthly, only after reboot, since vm creation, etc?

It is reset once a container is down and usage is zero.

> Have one user who appears to have about 532G in writes, which I am pretty sure is not a daily, or a weekly. Perhaps monthly?

Not sure what do you mean by "writes".

> So I am trying to get some tracking on some of our heavy i/o writing users
> (as well as some other items) and can't find information on how often that information is reset.
>

Oh, you probably mean ioacct or iostat. Both are described on the wiki:
  https://openvz.org/IO_statistics
  https://openvz.org/IO_accounting

Same as for beancounters, these are reset once CT is stopped.