On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 04:53:38PM +0200, Gebhardt Thomas wrote: > On Monday 19 July 2004 16:22, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > Hi, > > > not at the moment, but you can use a simple trick for that: > > thanks :-) > > > > That's another odd item. The RSS values reported by vserver-stat > > > are ridiculously small (maybe off by a factor of 1024?). Just a few kB > > > per active vserver running apache. > > > > give some numbers, and we'll discuss them ... > > master# vserver-stat > CTX PROC VSZ RSS userTIME sysTIME UPTIME NAME DESCRIPTION > 0 62 72MB 6kB 5h06m30 2h44m12 34d01h49 root server > ... > 49154 10 41MB 3kB 16m01.95 18m39.80 34d01h46 elog > ... > > So the elog vserver has a reported RSS size of 3kB > > # vserver elog enter > ... > elog:/# ps faux > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > root 26665 0.0 0.1 2136 1196 pts/1 S 16:35 0:00 /bin/bash > -login > root 27116 0.0 0.0 2556 780 pts/1 R 16:35 0:00 \_ ps faux > root 1 0.0 0.0 1272 436 ? S Jun15 0:38 init [2] > root 1285 0.0 0.0 1552 704 ? S Jun15 0:04 /sbin/syslog-ng > root 1315 0.0 0.0 2780 644 ? S Jun15 0:03 /usr/sbin/sshd > daemon 1318 0.0 0.0 1304 476 ? S Jun15 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd > root 1321 0.0 0.0 1572 560 ? S Jun15 0:03 /usr/sbin/cron > elog 12425 0.0 0.4 6376 4392 ? S Jun16 8:14 /usr/sbin/elogd > elog 12433 0.0 0.1 6084 1176 ? S Jun16 4:18 /usr/sbin/elogd > elog 12437 0.0 0.1 5300 1152 ? S Jun16 3:51 /usr/sbin/elogd > elog 12441 0.0 0.1 6336 1708 ? S Jun16 8:01 /usr/sbin/elogd > elog 12468 0.0 0.4 6184 4472 ? S Jun16 3:44 /usr/sbin/elogd > elog 12471 0.0 0.1 5228 1084 ? S Jun16 3:27 /usr/sbin/elogd > > Summing up the VSZ column (skipping the bash created by the vserver enter > command) we get about 40 MB, just as reported by vserver-stat. > Summing up the RSS column we get about 17 MB which is much more > that the 3kB reported by vserver-stat. > > Swap usage is about zero on that system, so the difference cannot > be explained with vm pages swapped in/out. Leaving the vserver, > vserver-stat reports 3kB RSS again: > > 49154 10 41MB 3kB 16m02.34 18m40.47 34d02h01 elog
seems that this is some kind of misinterpretation or bad summation/output of those values, they are basically 'just' sums over the ps output ... enrico? okay, now some questions: - what kernel and kernel patches do you use? - what tools and how are they configured? - what distributions on host and guest? TIA, Herbert > Cheers, Thomas > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
