vztop doesn't display VEID

[vandel]

Hi !

When I ask vztop to show the VEID (either live with 'e' or with the command line switch '-E -1'), I only see '0' for all processes!
Is this an OpenVZ bug or something specific to Proxmox VE?
My config :
Linux proxmox 2.6.24-9-pve #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 17 09:34:41 CET 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
pve-manager/1.5/4660
procps version 2.0.11

Cheers,

Jean-Marc

 

[tom]

I see this also on a local 2.6.24-10, on 2.6.18 it seems to work.

 

[valshare]

same here on all our 3 Proxmox server.

Linux proxmox01 2.6.24-10-pve #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 29 10:16:15 CET 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE  VEID STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU COMMAND
10011 root      20   0 1131M 1.0G  1420   N/A S     2.1 12.9  19:10   7 kvm
 8167 root      20   0  114M  10M  1956     0 S     0.3  0.1   0:42   1 opsipxeconfd
 5960 root      20   0 96352  36M  8696     0 S     0.9  0.4  34:27   0 splunkd
28122 root      20   0 16908 1444   884     0 R     0.3  0.0   0:00   3 vztop
    1 root      20   0 10316  744   616   N/A S     0.0  0.0   0:01   5 init

Regards, Valle

 

[vandel]

Right, it works with the old kernel!
But is it a kernel bug, an OpenVZ bug or something introduced by Proxmox???

 

[tom]

Right, it works with the old kernel!
But is it a kernel bug, an OpenVZ bug or something introduced by Proxmox???

2.6.18 is not 'old', its the current and latest stable OpenVZ version.

 

[vandel]

OK, I should have used 'older' instead.
The point is that it looks like a regression ...

 

[tom]

our 2.6.18 kernel is based on the 2.6.18 kernel but that does not mean that is old - in fact it there are thousands of fixes, enhancements and backports there.

the openvz stopped maintaining 2.6.24 so if you want reliable OpenVZ you need to use 2.6.18. but there are good news, they started implementing openvz for 2.6.32.

 

[vandel]

vztop still doesn't work very well with 2.6.18 !
Let's hope 2.6.32 will solve that ...

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE VEID STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
12501 root 18 0 18700 1804 936 N/A R 1.4 0.0 0:00 0 vztop
736 openerp 15 0 514M 175M 6940 121 S 0.9 4.4 47:36 3 python
21257 root 15 0 62336 1128 868 N/A S 0.4 0.0 0:05 3 sendmail-mta
30870 openerp 15 0 348M 46M 3772 N/A S 0.4 1.1 2:11 1 mysqld
31632 dnslog 16 0 106M 36M 28412 N/A S 0.4 0.9 3:12 3 postgres
1 root 18 0 10304 604 572 N/A S 0.0 0.0 89:38 3 init
2 root RT -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 migration/0/0
3 root 39 19 0 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 migration/0/1
5 root 34 19 0 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 ksoftirqd/1
6 root RT -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 2 migration/0/2
7 root 34 19 0 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 2 ksoftirqd/2
8 root RT -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 3 migration/0/3
9 root 34 19 0 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 3 ksoftirqd/3
10 root 10 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:02 0 events/0
11 root 10 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:01 1 events/1
12 root 10 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 2 events/2
13 root 10 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 3 events/3
14 root 10 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 khelper
53 root 11 -5 0 0 0 N/A SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kthread
60 root 10 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:33 0 kblockd/0
61 root 10 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:20 1 kblockd/1
62 root 10 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:16 2 kblockd/2
63 root 10 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:14 3 kblockd/3
64 root 20 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kacpid
137 root 20 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 cqueue/0
138 root 10 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 cqueue/1
139 root 10 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 2 cqueue/2
140 root 10 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 3 cqueue/3
143 root 12 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 khubd
145 root 10 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 kseriod
228 root 16 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 3 ubstatd
232 root 10 -5 0 0 0 N/A SW< 0.0 0.0 7:33 0 kswapd0
233 root 14 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 aio/0
234 root 10 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 aio/1
235 root 10 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 2 aio/2
236 root 16 -5 0 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 3 aio/3
426 #1001 15 0 9828 3188 2540 103 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 3 smtpd

 

[michaeljk]

I have the same problem here:

uname -a
Linux s415 2.6.32-4-pve #1 SMP Tue Mar 29 09:08:37 CEST 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

pve-manager: 1.8-15 (pve-manager/1.8/5754)
running kernel: 2.6.32-4-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.8-32
pve-kernel-2.6.32-4-pve: 2.6.32-32
qemu-server: 1.1-30
pve-firmware: 1.0-11
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-17
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.24-1pve4
vzdump: 1.2-11
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.14.0-3
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-5

Any ideas?

 

[massivescale]

I figured it out. Below is a patch against 2.0.11-2 which:
1. Fixes N/A veids
2. Fixes build under proxmox
3. enables showing VEID by default (because what's the point of running vztop without showing veid?)

http://massivescale.net/contrib/vztop_veid.txt