Processes scope and visibility
This HOWTO shows how OpenVZ hardware node administrator can see a processes belonging to the host system only, or to a particular VE.
Problem
From VE0 one can see all the processes running on the system; that includes all the processes of all VEs and the processes of the host system itself. Sometimes you just want to see the processes from the host system only. Sometimes you just want to see the processes from a particular VE.
There are many ways to achieve it.
Solutions
"Poor man's vzps in bash"
Use the following script by aistis, broken by Kir, fixed by Hvdkamer.
First argument is CT ID (0 for the host system), all the remaining arguments are passed to ps(1) utility.
#!/bin/bash
# Usage: ./ovzps CTID [ps flags ...]
function find_ve_pids(){
local pid
local myveid=$1
local vepids=
for pid in $ALLPIDS; do
[ -f /proc/$pid/status ] || continue
veid=`grep envID /proc/$pid/status | awk -F: '{print $2}'`
if [ ${veid} = ${myveid} ]; then
vepids="$vepids $pid"
fi
done
echo "$vepids"
}
ALLPIDS=`ps -A -o pid --no-headers`
VEPIDS=`find_ve_pids $1`
shift
if [ -n "${VEPIDS}" ]; then
ps $* -p $VEPIDS
else
exit 0
fi
Use vzprocps tools
Take vzprocps tools from http://download.openvz.org/contrib/utils/.
These are usual ps and top utilities (named vztop and vzps to not conflict with the standard ones) with an -E option added. You can use -E CTID option to limit the output to the selected CTID (use 0 for the host system), or just -E without an argument to just add CTID column to output.
