Subject: vxW syslog entries
From: Declan Mullen <declan@jadplace.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:10:16 +1000

Hi,

When my guest runs I get "vxW" entries in the host's syslog, see below 
for examples. Are these normal informational entries or are they 
indicating problems ?

Jun 10 22:27:04 jack kernel: vxW: [»pg_ctl«,4953:#40000|40000|40000] did 
lookup hidden f7f4b1c0[#0,2] »/dev/pts/0«.
Jun 10 23:03:24 jack kernel: vxW: [»ps«,9068:#40000|40000|40000] did 
lookup hidden f7f4b1c0[#0,2] »/dev/pts/0«.
Jun 10 23:03:58 jack kernel: vxW: [xid #0] !!! limit: f7811054[VM,9] = 
29 on exit.
Jun 11 21:15:35 jack kernel: vxW: [»pg_ctl«,7087:#40000|40000|40000] did 
lookup hidden f7f68068[#0,2] »/dev/pts/0«.
Jun 11 21:31:15 jack kernel: vxW: [»ps«,8773:#40000|40000|40000] did 
lookup hidden f7f68068[#0,2] »/dev/pts/0«.
Jun 11 21:43:27 jack kernel: vxW: [»pg_ctl«,9313:#40000|40000|40000] did 
lookup hidden f7f68068[#0,2] »/dev/pts/0«.
Jun 11 22:08:23 jack kernel: vxW: [»ps«,12639:#40000|40000|40000] did 
lookup hidden f7f68068[#0,2] »/dev/pts/0«.

I'm running Debian etch with a kernel built from Debian Backports kernel 
source version "2.6.22-6~bpo40+2", patched with 
"patch-2.6.22.18-vs2.3.0.32.diff", for CPU architecture AMD K7. The 
kernel build ".config" has these vserver parameters set:

CONFIG_VSERVER_AUTO_LBACK=y
# CONFIG_VSERVER_AUTO_SINGLE is not set
CONFIG_VSERVER_COWBL=y
# CONFIG_VSERVER_VTIME is not set
# CONFIG_VSERVER_DEVICE is not set
CONFIG_VSERVER_PROC_SECURE=y
CONFIG_VSERVER_HARDCPU=y
# CONFIG_VSERVER_IDLETIME is not set
CONFIG_VSERVER_IDLELIMIT=y
# CONFIG_TAGGING_NONE is not set
# CONFIG_TAGGING_UID16 is not set
# CONFIG_TAGGING_GID16 is not set
CONFIG_TAGGING_ID24=y
# CONFIG_TAGGING_INTERN is not set
# CONFIG_TAG_NFSD is not set
CONFIG_VSERVER_PRIVACY=y
CONFIG_VSERVER_CONTEXTS=256
CONFIG_VSERVER_WARN=y
# CONFIG_VSERVER_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_VSERVER=y
CONFIG_VSERVER_SECURITY=y

Thanks,
Declan