On 28/08/2007 12:14 AM, Gregor Mosheh wrote:
> Since we're on the topic, I thought I'd pipe up for Steve's benefit 
> about a small matter which I found baffling for a few days...
>
> If you run "df -k" in a VE, you will often get a different answer than 
> vzquota. This is because vzquota doesn't keep to-the-moment statistics 
> in its cache file. You must run "vzquota stat VEID" in order to have 
> the cache updated; then vzquota will report the correct usage. This is 
> in the Wiki, but I thought to save you some time. :)
>
Thanks :-)

And for the benefit of Kir, I wasn't intending the GOOD/BAD thing wasn't 
intended as a criticism of openvz.  It was really only bad because I had 
become fixated on the user_beancounters as a diagnostic and had 
forgotten about all the other good tools :-)  The error from vi sort of 
pointed me at a memory issue which didn't help much either.

However I was extremely grateful that my silly error in causing the VE 
to consume about 8 GB per hour had stopped at the quota limit of 40 GB 
rather than consuming all free space on that partition.


Steve