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Clearing/resetting user_beancounter? [message #2796]

Fri, 21 April 2006 09:03

billybofh
Messages: 10
Registered: January 2006

Junior Member

Apologies if this is covered somewhere and I've missed it in the userguide or forums (I tried a few different searches) - but how do I reset the stats in the user_beancounter for VPS's?

As my VPS's are running I'm seeing a few that hit their limits so I adjust, but it'd be nice to clear the stats so that I can see new problems rather than having to double-check that it's just showing up the problem I've already adjusted for Smile

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Re: Clearing/resetting user_beancounter? [message #2797 is a reply to message #2796]

Fri, 21 April 2006 09:28

kir
Messages: 1645
Registered: August 2005
Location: Moscow, Russia

Senior Member

The thing is, there can be many application who reads /proc/user_beancounters, and thus if you will reset it you gonna have problems with those other apps.

Consider what happens if you will reset you sent/received packets/bytes statistics on the network interface -- programs which reads will be screwed up.

So the proper thing to watch for is not the current value of, say, failcnt, but whether it is increased or not. You can write a simple shell script to do just that.

Kir Kolyshkin