Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

[Tim Schmielau]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

> We really want to avoid doing such stuff in-kernel if at all possible, of
> course.
> 
> Is it not possible to implement the fork/exec/exit notifications to
> userspace so that a daemon can track the process relationships and perform
> aggregation based upon individual tasks' accounting?  That's what one of
> the accounting systems is proposing doing, I believe.
> 
> (In fact, why do we even need the notifications?  /bin/ps can work this
> stuff out).


I had started a proof of concept implementation that could reconstruct the 
whole process tree from userspace just from the BSD accounting currently 
in the kernel (+ the conceptual bug-fix that I misnamed "[RFC] "biological 
parent" pid"). This could do the whole job ID thing from userspace.
Unfortunately, I haven't had time to work on it recently.

Also, doing per-job accounting might actually be more lightweight than 
per-process accounting, so I'm not at all opposed to unifying CSA and BSD 
accounting into one mechanism that just writes different file formats.

A complete framework seems like overkill to me, too.

Tim
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