gkrellm "net" doesn't play nice with docker: how to remove or ignore-by-regex?

Stuart Longland <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Jun 2016 06:58:54 +1000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gkrellm
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Hi all,

Been a gkrellm user for a while now, and for monitoring what goes on
with my machine, I find it quite useful.  However, one bug that's really
come to a head since I started doing Docker container development.

Docker, when you spin up container instances, creates ephemeral network
interfaces for the container, which have the pattern ^veth[0-9a-f]+$.

These live for the life of the container, which, is measured in tens of
minutes when doing development work.  gkrellm is like an elephant: it
never forgets.

Given there are 480 minutes in the average working day, that's a lot of
tabs left behind in the gkrellm configuration window for me to manually
turn off, and now I have a problem that my laptop's LCD screen isn't
wide enough and I think even one of these fancy Rentina display laptops
would struggle with this…

http://www.longlandclan.id.au/~stuartl/gkrellm/2016/06/08-docker/gkrellm-bug.png

So, a query… is it possible to remove these entries from gkrellm's
memory, either manually, or automatically have it ignore networks that
match a given pattern?

Regards,
-- 
Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)

I haven't lost my mind...
  ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

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