On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 08:55:18AM -0800, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> Is there _direct_ way/method to check a process id in a guest from the host?
> I'm running some mini-web servers in 8-10 guests and yesterday several
> ran a amok grabbing 95%+ CPU (dual processors and dual cores). Until I
> can sort out the problem I'd like to monitor them from the host and kill
> them if needed. I know the process ID in the guest but haven't figured
> out how to get to /vservers/<guest>/proc/<pid>/* from the host.
if you are using pid namespaces, there is no such thing,
but if you use pid isolation (the Linux-VServer default)
then the pid on the host (from the spectator context) will
be the same as in the guest, except for the guest pid=1
which will be the initpid from /proc/virtual/<xid>/info
> Any suggestions how to check on this?
HTH,
Herbert
> \\||/
> Rod
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