procdfs

procfs, distributed

Running procdfs

Once cloned run:

mkdir build
cd build
mkdir <mountdir>
cmake ..
make -j # for multithreaded make
# Use -f flag for running in foreground, -s single threaded. Must use debugging (-d) flag
./procdfs [-f -s] -d <mountdir> <total-machines> <port-number> <interface-name> <ipfile> <machine-ip>

On every machine that you wish to monitor.

Input parameters

1. -d : Debug flag, distributed version doesn't work without it. The other two are optional
2. <mountdir> : This is the location where procdfs will mount, after running all files can be found inside this location
3. <total-machines> : The total number of machines on the network
4. <port-number> : The port number you wish to use for this particular machine
5. <interface-name> : Specify the interface name this machine should use (unused)
6. <ipfile> : A file containing all the IPs of the machines on the network. An example file can be found here
7. <machine-ip> : The IP address (IPv4) of the machine

Querying a file

Once running, you should be able to query a file in <mountdir> and get a concatenated version of that corresponding procfs file. For example if there are 3 machines which are connected:

cat procdfs/net/dev

Should return something similar to this: