Hello, I'm working on a new project called ELSA (Enhanced Linux System Accounting). The job of accounting is to collect and report the use of various system resources by applications. Informations, like process time, CPU usage, connect time or disk space usage, provides data that helps the system to adjust the use of resources between processes. The current BSD-like process accounting that already exists in Linux collects informations on individual users or groups of users. The ELSA project aims to improve and extend the monitoring of resources with different criteria like groups of processes. Another target for this project is to give Linux an homogeneous set of commands for all kinds of accounting (memory, CPU and I/O). Currently, I have implemented the structure to group process into containers and I've also written a module to manage those containers and a user program that shows how you can use it. I post in this group because I think that project can interest people that want to work around Linux kernel. The code is easy to understand and it deals with different kernel parts like module, /proc interface or process structure (there is an old patch that implements a system call sys_elsa()). Thus, maybe some developers want to join the project or give their opinion about the way I choose to implement ELSA. If you find bugs (there is some) please tell me. If you are interested you can found every information on the web site http://elsa.sourceforge.net I tested the patch-2.6.5-elsa_module by selecting elsa as module when doing the menuconfig. Thank you for your help. Feel free to give your opinion, any comments will be very appreciated. Guillaume Thouvenin -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
