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authorDaniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>2019-08-19 07:41:50 -0400
committerDaniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>2019-08-19 07:41:50 -0400
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Fix error message on podman stats on cgroups v1 rootless environments
podman stats does not work in rootless environments with cgroups V1. Fix error message and document this fact. Signed-off-by: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
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@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ podman\-stats - Display a live stream of 1 or more containers' resource usage st
## DESCRIPTION
Display a live stream of one or more containers' resource usage statistics
+Note: Podman stats will not work in rootless environments that use CGroups V1.
+Podman stats relies on CGroup information for statistics, and CGroup v1 is not
+supported for rootless use cases.
+
## OPTIONS
**--all**, **-a**
@@ -69,14 +73,14 @@ a9f807ffaacd frosty_hodgkin -- 3.092MB / 16.7GB 0.02% -- / -- --
# podman stats --no-stream --format=json a9f80
[
{
- "id": "a9f807ffaacd",
- "name": "frosty_hodgkin",
- "cpu_percent": "--",
- "mem_usage": "3.092MB / 16.7GB",
- "mem_percent": "0.02%",
- "netio": "-- / --",
- "blocki": "-- / --",
- "pids": "2"
+ "id": "a9f807ffaacd",
+ "name": "frosty_hodgkin",
+ "cpu_percent": "--",
+ "mem_usage": "3.092MB / 16.7GB",
+ "mem_percent": "0.02%",
+ "netio": "-- / --",
+ "blocki": "-- / --",
+ "pids": "2"
}
]
```