Subject: Re: [vserver] tcpdump, top, mpstat, iostat
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 01:41:58 +0100

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:01:48AM +0900, Andrej van der Zee wrote:
> Hi,

> One of our clients is about to start using VServer Debian. 
> A big issue is the usage of monitoring tools, in particular 
> tcpdump, 
not a monitoring tool
not allowed with network isolation, but should
work fine with network namespaces

> top, 
naturally works fine

> mpstat and
works, depending on the version and configuration
the result is virtualized

> iostat. 
no device stats available inside a guest

> Are these known to work and how do they deal with virtualisation?

HTH,
Herbert

> Thank you,
> Andrej