Thanks all for your answers. At least I won't need to scrape any more google results for answers to this.
As mentioned, it would certainly be a useful patch if ever it gets implemented in mainline. I hope someone from the lxc kernel developers are listening to this thread... :) - Ian On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Greg Kurz <gk...@fr.ibm.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 09:47 -0500, Serge Hallyn wrote: >> Quoting ian sison (mailing list) (ian.si...@gmail.com): >> > Hi all - >> > >> > In openvz, a certain sysctl parameter, >> > >> > kernel.pid_ns_hide_child = 1 >> > >> > when executed at HN system startup will hide any processes that run >> > inside the running containers from appearing in the output of 'ps'. >> > This makes for a cleaner 'ps' output in the hardware node, and >> > prevents inadvertent container malfunctions when something like >> > 'killall -9 httpd' is executed in the command line of the HN. >> > >> > How can i do the same with LXC? My google searches draw up a blank. >> >> It's not currently implemented anywhere that I know of, but you should >> be able to pretty easily hack lxc-ps (take a look at the script) to show >> you all tasks which are not in a container. I think that would be a >> nice patch to push to upstream lxc-ps. 'lxc-ps --host' or something. >> > > That would be a nice to have _best effort_ solution indeed. But it > wouldn't solve the general use case like killing a task with killall or > top for example. > > Cheers. > >> thanks, >> -serge >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software >> The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network >> management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial >> acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd >> _______________________________________________ >> Lxc-users mailing list >> Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users > > -- > Gregory Kurz gk...@fr.ibm.com > Software Engineer @ IBM/Meiosys http://www.ibm.com > Tel +33 (0)534 638 479 Fax +33 (0)561 400 420 > > "Anarchy is about taking complete responsibility for yourself." > Alan Moore. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users
