[pve-devel] [PATCH pve-manager] pvestatd: stream host pressure counters

[Dietmar Maurer]

> I would like also to add some improvement for vm memory/cpu stats.
> 
> for cpu, currently, we only monitor the qemu process cpu usage, but
> with virtio-net + vhost-net,
> we are missing vhost-* process cpu usage.  (For vms will a lot of
> traffic, this is really signifiant).
> 
> I would like to add something like "hostcpu" counter, will real metric
> (reading the vm cgroup cpu.stat)

make sense.

> Also, for memory, when ballooning is enabled, we don't have anymore
> the real memory usage on the host.
> For example, a windows vm with 16g mem is filling memory with zeroes
> at boot, so from the host all the 16G memory is used, but in windows
> guest we only see something like 2G.
> 
> so, I would like to add something like "hostmemory" counter
> 
> 
> what do you think about this ?

Sounds reasonable. We just need to find a way to add new values
in a compatible way.