Jim Brown IV [Sat, 7 Jun 2014 00:31:02 +0000 (17:31 -0700)]
tload: fix lockup
It looks like an off by one error was added to tload a couple years
ago while removing goto statements. This causes tload to go into
an endless loop when the load is just under a scale change integer.
eg: .99, 1.99, 3.99, 7.99
to reproduce you can add, just under the loadavg at line 170 in tload.c:
av[0] = 1.99;
or get the load to that level separately.
The patch below makes the code more like the original, but without the
goto statements. This can also be fixed by just changing line 183 in
tload.c from "if (0 < row)" -> "if (0 <= row)".
Jaromir Capik [Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:24:55 +0000 (15:24 +0200)]
library: fixing stdio.h include position in nsutils.c
The previous commit removes the stdio_ext.h header,
but the ns_read function calls snprintf that needs
stdio.h and therefore moving the stdio.h include
from the bottom test program to the top line.
Sean Silva [Fri, 18 Oct 2013 06:04:15 +0000 (02:04 -0400)]
watch: Fix handling of ANSI color escapes for -c
The previous code assumed that there would be 1 or 2 attributes to
apply. In fact, there can in general be any number (but typically
between 1 and 3). This commit generalizes the existing code to read
arbitrarily many attributes from the escape sequence.
Jaromir Capik [Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:21:22 +0000 (13:21 +0200)]
free: fixing the layout broken with the -w introduction
For some reason I thought the columns are left justified
and consequently modified the header incorrectly when
implementing the -w/--wide feature.
With this commit the column width was increased by 1
so that the default layout is 79 characters wide
and allows to display 11 digits per column.
Jim Warner [Thu, 7 Aug 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: swat a potential buglet affecting new graph modes
This patch will cure a potential aberration associated
with a terminal's size (SIGWINCH) and top's new graphs
modes. The symptoms were a dangling tilde (~) plus the
potential loss of a graph's right-most visual content.
The condition was only apparent when a %Cpu approached
100% usage. Also the apparent loss of content affected
the 'block' graph only. With 'bar' graphs, that affect
became the loss of proper right-most bar graph colors.
The cause was determined to be a combination of: 1) an
unnecessary snprintf precision specification; and 2) a
rounding quirk for any graphs which displayed distinct
types of information (as for user/syst, used/unavail).
These could then combine to produce an extra bar/block
which, in turn, resulted in the truncation of a pseudo
termcap attribute used by the show_special() function.
What was originally interpreted as an intractable race
condition turns out to be just a self inflicted wound.
With introduction of the 'available' column
and with the latest changes in the 'used' evaluation
the -/+ buffers/cache line became redundant.
The first value duplicates the 'used'
column and the second value has a more accurate
brother called 'available'.
This renames the --available switch
to the --wide switch and changes the default
layout so that it includes the 'available'
column and joins buffers and cache into
a common column called 'buff/cache'.
Jim Warner [Sat, 19 Jul 2014 09:44:44 +0000 (04:44 -0500)]
library: evolve MenAvailable algorithm on older kernel
Let's not report zero for kb_main_available when older
kernels don't have MemAvailable. Instead, if we simply
duplicate the 'free' amount we can avoid all ancillary
problems, such as those involving top's graphing mode.
Jim Warner [Thu, 17 Jul 2014 18:13:13 +0000 (13:13 -0500)]
top: exploit new kb_main_available, make Jaromir happy
This patch will trade a former pessimistic calculation
of free physical memory for a more optimistic one that
uses the newly added kb_main_available library export.
But in case one might wish to return to the old former
method, there's a new #define that was made available.
[ the new calculation will affect graphing mode only ]
Jim Warner [Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:12:12 +0000 (12:12 -0500)]
top: trade Page_size for that newly exposed page_bytes
Might as well use the newly exposed sysinfo.h variable
'page_bytes' rather than our own. Plus, in the process
we can avoid incurring yet one more function call hit.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit just ensures recalculation of some amounts
for iterative processes, like top. It also trades some
repeated runtime calls to sysconf for a one time cost.
Jim Warner [Wed, 16 Jul 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
library: disable a potential 'ELF note' is missing msg
The stderr message regarding ELF notes appears on some
systems (openSUSE-13.1 for example) but I have not yet
isolated why. Since at startup we go on to determine a
Hertz value the old fashion way, this patch just turns
off the useless message until the cause is understood.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
sysctl: support expansion of csh style braces with -p
This commit adds the GLOB_BRACE flag in the glob flags.
That allows to expand the csh style braces {a,b} and
define multiple independent patterns for config file
locations.
library: fallback MemAvailable evaluation if missing
This commit adds support for fallback calculation
of the MemAvailable field if not exported by the
kernel. The MemAvailable field appeared in kernel
3.14, but it's possible to calculate it from other
fields since 2.6.27 (splitLRU changes).
Nowadays the usernames can be 32 characters long
(typically OpenShift usernames use the whole length)
and the old limit was preventing us from processing
them correctly.
The macro change affects the proc_t structure size.
This commit adds a new switch -a/--available that
appends a new column called 'available' to the
output. The column displays an estimation
of how much memory is available for starting
new applications, without swapping. Unlike the data
provided by the 'cached' or 'free' fields, this
field takes into account page cache and also that
not all reclaimable memory slabs will be reclaimed
due to items being in use.
This commit introduces a new option q/-q/--quick-pid
to the 'ps' command. The option does a similar job
to the p/-p/--pid option (i.e. selection of PIDs
listed in the comma separated list that follows
the option), but the new option is optimized
for speed.
In cases where users only need to specify a list
of PIDs to be shown and don't need other selection
options, forest type output and sorting options,
the new option is recommended as it decreases
the initial processing delay by avoiding reading
the necessary information from all the processes
running on the system and by simplifying
the internal filtering logic.
Jim Warner [Fri, 4 Jul 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: fix potential 'nan', should a system have no Swap
Gosh, just because most of us might run with some swap
file allocated, not every system might. I only wish my
testing methodology was as sophisticated as Jaromir's.
Jim Warner [Wed, 2 Jul 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: add another translation hint for graphs alignment
This should be the last of this kind of crap. I'll get
to work on some means to no longer burden a translator
with lengths requirements. Ideally each word should be
allowed to stand alone and the minimum/maximum lengths
handled programmatically when our ol' top is executed.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The pgrep usage() rework commit from 26-Sep-2011 introduced
a regression in exitcodes and the pgrep tool now returns
EXIT_FAILURE (1) or even EXIT_SUCCESS (0) instead
of the documented EXIT_USAGE (2). This commit fixes
the usage() so that the exitcodes match the manual.
Jim Warner [Sun, 29 Jun 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: retire old stale startup defaults in favor of new
For over a decade top has used a startup configuration
mimicking the original redhat top. This decision dates
back to when the forked Sourceforge version was trying
to win over users in battles with that ancient kludge.
Will anybody deny that those defaults are coyote ugly?
Well, it is time that top presented a more modern look
at startup, providing that no saved rcfile exists. But
just in case some distro prefers that old, comfortable
look, there's the '--disable-modern-top' build option.
[ Pssst. With the widened memory fields it turns out ]
[ the 'Mem' default window had become almost useless ]
[ on an 80x24 terminal since %CPU & COMMAND were out ]
[ of view. So some other defaults were tweaked a bit ]
[ whether or not --disable-modern-top was specified. ]
When startup argument parsing was recently enhanced to
account for LC_NUMERIC settings, some user input logic
dealing with numbers fails to exploit that capability.
This patch extends such enhancements to a running top.
Craig Small [Tue, 1 Jul 2014 08:51:21 +0000 (18:51 +1000)]
Reliably kill test processes
It seems command -v also includes built-ins so checking for kill
is useless because it finds the built-in and those machines or
environments that have no /bin/kill fail at the check stage.
Oh and then TCL exec doesn't spawn a shell.
After reading way too many TCL websites, I believe this should
fix the problem. TCL quoting is... different to say the least but
it works reliably here. The script now even picked up a typo elsewhere
which was nice.
This change should stop the intermittent FTBFS bugs from the Debian
pbuilders, I hope! You'd think kill $var wouldn't be this difficult.
Jim Warner [Fri, 27 Jun 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: afford each window its own cpu/memory graph modes
When those new cpu/memory graphs modes were introduced
they had global impact. In other words, the modes that
were chosen for a 'current' window affect Summary Area
appearance for every other window as well, even though
each window sets unique View_STATES/View_MEMORY flags.
I do not know how widespread the use of top's separate
window provisions is, but I do know that documentation
promises every window (field group) provides "a unique
separately configurable summary area". And even though
that promise does not include memory scaling (separate
'E' command) the graph modes are integral to 't' & 'm'
and those were already observed on a per window basis.
So this patch just takes the cpu and memory graph mode
values out of global scope in the configuration file &
gives each window its own unique pair of graph values.
Craig Small [Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:38:13 +0000 (23:38 +1000)]
Manpage translations in Makefiles
The translated manpage generation has moved from scripts to
Makefiles. This asists with conditional building as well, no
need to regenerate the German pgrep man page if both
the original pgrep.1 and man-po/de.po is not changed.
My Makefile-fu fails me on producing a cross-product or double
iteration for languages and man pages. Until that is solved
each man page is explicitly built. No big deal but it doesn't
look elegant in the Makefile. Languages will be picked
up automatically if they are found in man-po, man-po/top or
man-po/ps
The README describes the three-step process for translating
the files, incase I forget or someone else wants to update them.
Craig Small [Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:11:15 +0000 (23:11 +1000)]
Moved man-po pot file creation into Makefile
The pot files for man-po are part of the extra_dist target so are
built at dist time. These used to be created as part of the dist-hook.
However it is better to control their builds in the Makefile so they
are conditionally built. It also means distcheck doesn't complain when
they are added to the CLEANFILES.
Jim Warner [Wed, 25 Jun 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: tweak argument parsing for some locale situations
Boy I hate locale stuff. For code I thought was pretty
robust, Jaromir sure proved that it wasn't. Anyway, me
thinks this commit closes some gaps and will cause top
to behave appropriately under various locale settings.
It does *not* permit top to respond to the ',' and '.'
floating point separator without regard to the locale.
It does, however, enforce proper LC_NUMERIC responses.
Let's look on this commit as an interim solution until
Jaromir can create that proposed 'fp_decode' function.
Who knows, he might even borrow some of our mkfloat().
[ An aside: the coreutils sleep and timeout programs ]
[ claim to permit floating point arguments. However, ]
[ neither one will accept the comma separator should ]
[ the locale be a country that in fact uses a comma. ]
[ In other words, with this commit we are way ahead! ]
Jim Warner [Tue, 24 Jun 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: let's not pretend top can catch SIGKILL & SIGSTOP
While there was no harm done setting a handler for the
above two signals, they are in fact uncatchable. Thus,
whenever we ran with valgrind we're politely reminded.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Mon, 23 Jun 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: scale length for new graphs to a terminal's width
When the beginning of the Mem/Swap graphs was variable
scaling them to the current terminal's width was a bit
of a costly nightmare. So the graph size was fixed and
subject to truncation. However now that the start of a
graph can be easily predicted, I've revisited scaling.
As it turns out, any cost is minimal & mostly incurred
at an opportune time, at SIGWINCH or user interaction.
Plus, most of the apparent arithmetic is actually just
a means of documenting and will disappear thru compile
time constants in the ultimate generated machine code.
Note: those graphs will now behave just like any other
Summary Area element - they will scale from full sized
down to a terminal width of 80 columns, at which point
those displayed graphs are then subject to truncation.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Mon, 23 Jun 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: with new bar graphs, make 'b' toggle unrestricted
While the 'b' toggle remains window based (vs. global)
it should no longer require that the window be visible
and either the 'x' or 'y' toggles to be on. Previously
those requirements were intended to remind a user that
there must be something for this command to highlight.
With the introduction of graph modes (specifically the
the bar graph) the 'bold/reverse' toggle has important
implications beyond highlighting some columns or rows.
The %Cpu(s) graph and Mem portion of the memory graphs
are designed to offer a visual clue as to the separate
elements comprising them. But that separation could be
lost under some X color schemes or when top is running
without color (in monochrome mode) and the block graph
is selected. But, if the graph is then changed to bars
any separation always becomes visible whenever the 'b'
toggle is turned off. Portions then show in 'reverse'.
So from now on we'll check nothing, we'll just toggle.
[ Besides, with all the code thrown at restricting a ]
[ 'b' toggle use, it might have all been for naught. ]
[ That toggle could still be set/unset using the 'Z' ]
[ command and the color mapping screen. Geez Louise! ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Sun, 22 Jun 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: reflect current graph modes state in man document
This patch just beefs up the man documentation for the
new graphs modes while also reflecting the most recent
program changes, prompted by the feedback shown below.
Jim Warner [Sun, 22 Jun 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: make '#define GRAPHS_ALIGN' an immutable solution
My original graph modes implementation made no attempt
to align the Cpu & Mem/Swap graphs. I thought, rather,
that such alignment could be best achieved by the user
using top's 'E' memory scaling command toggle. In that
way Mem/Swap prefixes could be reduced by 3 positions,
bringing the beginning '[' into line with the %Cpu(s).
If that proved to be too cumbersome a #define could be
enabled making the Mem/Swap prefix static while adding
a few padding bytes to the %Cpu line(s) for alignment.
It was those waisted bytes that were the most concern.
What I had not counted on was the fact that the memory
lines themselves might become misaligned & that became
likely with more physical memory present. That too can
be cured with the 'E' command but as scaling is raised
we soon reach a meaningless total such as '0.003' even
though the displayed % remains valid (and unchanging).
So this commit implements unconditionally what used to
be conditional. But, instead of waisting padding bytes
we'll put that space to good use with a new 'total %'.
Jim Warner [Sun, 22 Jun 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: shorten some lines by changing a few declarations
My first blush graphs modes implementation went just a
tad overboard on identifier lengths. As a result, some
program lines were getting quite long. So, this commit
will simply shorten some excessively long identifiers.
Jim Warner [Wed, 18 Jun 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: add graphs modes for cpu and memory, program code
This patch makes 't' (View_STATES) & 'm' (View_MEMORY)
commands into 4-way toggles. The two new modes provide
for two different graphs of the cpu and/or memory use.
These new capabilities are similar to those offered by
the 'htop' program. However they're aesthetically more
pleasing (to me) plus the scalings are more authentic.
Poor ol' top has long been troubled by the comparisons
offered up by the 'htop' program. Many of those things
were only true of the original redhat top while others
are no longer true of this current top program. So let
me use this commit msg to begin to correct the record.
Corrected comparisons between 'htop' & 'top' programs:
------------------------------------------------------
+ htop does not start faster, actually reverse is true
+ top offers scrolling vertically and horizontally too
. (and top offers better <Home> and <End> key support)
+ unassigned keystrokes don't subject top to any delay
. (but htop suffers that annoying ncurses <Esc> delay)
+ in top one need not type the PID to kill the process
+ in top one need not type the PID to renice a process
Some things the 'htop' program was not bragging about:
------------------------------------------------------
+ top can outperform the htop program by a wide margin
+ htop + SIGWINCH = corrupted display + restart likely
+ htop cannot preserve its screen data at suspend/exit
+ the htop column management scheme is very cumbersome
+ htop allows columns to be duplicated again and again
+ htop displays only full command lines, not pgm names
. (and that 'Command' column must always be displayed)
. (and it must always remain as the last column shown)
+ htop does not provide for any sort of command recall
+ htop's search feature does not highlight any matches
+ there is no 'find next' outside of htop search modes
+ htop does not allow Header or Process memory scaling
+ htop provides no flexibility on column justification
+ htop does not provide the means to change col widths
+ htop provides less control over colors configuration
+ htop always overwrites the rcfile with any UI change
Someday, maybe we'll provide a better comparison as an
addendum for (or replacement of) that README.top file.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Wed, 18 Jun 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: rearrange Mem & Swap lines and standardize 'used'
In anticipation of upcoming memory graphing provisions
the abbreviations 'Mem' and 'Swap' are being made into
individual translatable strings in order to be reused.
Additionally, the Mem 'used' amount will now no longer
included the 'buffers' and 'cached' values. Thus, each
Mem category becomes unique. This is the approach used
by tools such as 'htop' or the gnome 'System Monitor'.
Lastly, with that change to the 'used' category it has
been repositioned after 'free' on the Mem & Swap lines
making a comparison between 'total' and 'free' easier.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Tue, 27 May 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: tweak hotplugged response and frame refresh logic
For some time now, top has refrained from updating the
current number of cpus and memory totals with each and
every refresh cycle. Rather, to lessen overhead costs,
such values are updated periodically (5 min & 3 secs).
The delay in updating the cpu count was only important
with the addition of a cpu, since any loss is detected
immediately. And the large interval was chosen because
of the costs once associated with a glibc sysconf call
and an unlikely scenario of physically adding the cpu.
But the ease with which cpus can be taken offline then
placed back online under linux suggests that 5 minutes
may be too high. So, without addressing the likelihood
of that act, top is now more responsive in these ways:
1) that 5 minute interval has been reduced to 1 minute
2) any key, not just Enter/Space, refreshes cpus & mem
Note: we leave the man document as is, suggesting that
only the Enter/Space keys force an update for hotplug.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Sat, 24 May 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
ps: correct some man document deficiencies/aberrations
. a 'space' misinterpreted as the continuation request
. continuation character, resulting in a concatenation
. 2 missing fields inadvertently omitted from man page
Jim Warner [Sat, 24 May 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: add missing summary area info to the man document
Way back for release 3.2.6 of the original procps top,
a patch was introduced to explain abbreviations in the
summary area showing cpu state percentages. Ever since
that time the the 'id/idle' category has been missing.
This patch simply corrects that oversight, having been
noticed after a review of the outstanding Ubuntu bugs.
Reference(s):
. deficiency yet unresolved (May 2010)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/procps/+bug/574624
. patch incorporated into 'ng' (Feb 2011)
commit ee5fd1dce1fe91531b8ee5ec3d7c6620fb7dc6a3
. cpu states doc requests (Jun 2005, Jan 2004)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=312157
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=228899
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Craig Small [Tue, 27 May 2014 10:49:16 +0000 (20:49 +1000)]
Reduced partition type check
vmstat -p checks used to fail on systems with odd
partition tables, including some Debian buildd servers.
This change limits what sort of test partitions are used,
otherwise the test is skipped.
There probably are other valid partitions, these can be added
later, if known.
library: reverting tmpfs subtraction from cached (18-FEB-2014)
The subtraction was marked as reinforcing the misconception,
that memory in the page cache can be considered free.
The Cached value is not a sum of page cache and tmpfs,
as the tmpfs memory lives in the page cache and therefore
it's an inseparable part of it.
Jim Warner [Sun, 27 Apr 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: standardize <Esc> key support with prompted input
In release 3.3.6, some commands were equipped with the
concept of a 'default pid'. The initial implementation
meant that the intuitive <Esc> key would not always be
treated as one would expect under any well behaved UI.
This patch ensures the expected <Esc> key behavior of:
terminating user input while still making possible the
necessary distinction between 'no input' & 'defaults'.
Jim Warner [Sun, 27 Apr 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: avoid a 'nan' when the delay interval is very low
The granularity of /proc/uptime is fixed at hundredths
of a second. And, since we can cycle faster than that,
we are exposed to 'nan' when calculating elapsed time.
This commit will protect us from that outcome when the
delay interval has been set to an extremely low value.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Wed, 23 Apr 2014 05:00:01 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: refactor man document so as to allow translations
The majority of changes in this commit are intended to
enable translation of top's man page. There were three
kinds of errors as seen by that po4a-updatepo program.
. a valid but unrecognized request concerning no-break
. an internally defined macro with a groff .de request
. occasional apostrophe at the beginning of some lines
With respect to the apostrophe, some have been changed
to back-tic since line placement could not be assured.
And other parts were re-flowed to avoid temptations to
escape as \' (technically an acute accent). Of course,
the opening back-tic with closing apostrophe looks odd
when ASCII, but should be rendered correctly as UTF-8.
It may yet be necessary to change the remaining single
'opening' quotes to back-tics as translation proceeds.
Should that become necessary, I intend to reduce quote
usage to the bare minimum throughout the man document.
There were also some formatting changes to enhance the
man2html output and then to other formats via htmldoc.
And, I wish to acknowledge that my meager groff skills
do not serve those programs very well at all. In other
words groff yet remains mostly incomprehensible to me.
Lastly a few content plus copyright updates were made.
Message(s):
. Unknown macro '.c2 `'. Remove it from the document, or refer to the Locale::Po4a::Man manpage to see how po4a can handle new macros.
. This page defines a new macro with '.de'. Since po4a is not a real groff parser, this is not supported.
. Unknown macro ''real time' scheduling priority.'. Remove it from the document, or refer to the Locale::Po4a::Man manpage to see how po4a can handle new macros.
Jim Warner [Fri, 25 Apr 2014 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: protect against distortion when system time reset
If a system's time is adjusted backwards, then elapsed
time could appear as negative. This yielded a negative
%CPU value. Alternately if zeros were suppressed ('0')
the result was a blank %CPU column. In both cases that
distortion would last for one display cycle or until a
user forced a display refresh via some keyboard input.
The original recommendation was trading gettimeofday()
for clock_gettime() using CLOCK_MONOTONIC. But on some
systems that might not be possible, forcing the use of
CLOCK_REALTIME instead. Not only would that complicate
the build system, but it may leave us with minus %CPU.
Another approach was to ensure that elapsed time could
never be negative. Of course, this produced distortion
of %CPU values but it would be proportionally correct.
This wasn't dissimilar to a distortion already present
should the time be adjusted forward or backward within
any 'remaining' top delay intervals. These aberrations
would be avoided with clock_gettime & CLOCK_MONOTONIC,
but that is a less than ideal solution as noted above.
This final solution, which originated down under, will
simply rely on the /proc/uptime seconds, which will be
immune to *any* tampering with the system clock. Thus,
we now have a fix for the distortion we didn't know we
suffered plus a negative %CPU that began this odyssey.
Thanks to:
sk.alvin.x@gmail.com, for the original effort
jcapik@redhat.com, for a heads up on CLOCK_MONOTONIC
csmall-procps@enc.com.au, for the best suggestion of all
Reference(s):
. original post/patch
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/PATCH-top-use-clock-gettime-instead-of-gettimeofday
. heads up on CLOCK_MONOTONIC
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/PATCH-top-use-clock-gettime-instead-of-gettimeofday,2
. the final solution
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/PATCH-top-use-clock-gettime-instead-of-gettimeofday,11
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Sami Farin [Fri, 14 Mar 2014 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
sysctl: increase max supported line length of the conf file
I ran into this limit with net.ipv4.ip_local_reserved_ports ,
sysctl complained about the line after the long line, further
slowing down my error hunting.
Due to fgets usage, increase buffer size to 4096 chars with
minimum amount of code changes.
Signed-off-by: Sami Farin <hvtaifwkbgefbaei@gmail.com>
Yuri Chornoivan [Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:58:56 +0000 (21:58 +1100)]
Minor i18n fixes
Minor fixes that the translator (Yuri) has found in some of the
strings. You only know how many typos and thinkos you have when
someone is trying to translate it.
tmpfs has become much more widely used since distributions use it for
/tmp (Fedora 18+). In /proc/meminfo, memory used by tmpfs is accounted
into "Cached" (aka "NR_FILE_PAGES",
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/mm/shmem.c#L301 ).
The tools just pass it on, so what top, free and vmstat report as
"cached" is the sum of page cache and tmpfs.
free has the extremely useful "-/+ buffers/cache" output. However, now
that tmpfs is accounted into "cached", those numbers are way off once
you have big files in /tmp.
Fortunately, kernel 2.6.32 introduces "Shmem", which makes tmpfs memory
usage accessible from userspace (
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4b02108ac1b3354a22b0d83c684797692efdc395 ).
This patch substracts Shmem from Cached to get the actual page cache
memory. This makes both issues mentioned above disappear. For older
kernels, Shmem is not available (hence zero) and this patch is no-op.
Additionally:
* Update the man pages of free and vmstat to explain what is happening
* Finally drop "MemShared" from the /proc/meminfo parser, it has been
dead for 10+ years and is only causing confusion ( removed in kernel
2.5.54, see
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/?id=fe04e9451e5a159247cf9f03c615a4273ac0c571 )
Jim Warner [Tue, 25 Feb 2014 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: avoid name conflict in the next version of stdlib
Since its inception top has always used enumerators to
identify displayable fields. They've taken the form of
P_PID, etc. As it turns out, something has changed for
libc6-dev versions beyond 2.17-93 wherein 'P_PID' will
now be exposed via stdlib.h. I have not pinpointed the
exact cause but it may depend on header include order.
This patch just trades top's long standing 'P_' prefix
convention for that of 'EU_' (short for enumerator). I
cannot find *any* header under /usr/include/ currently
utilizing this particular three character combination.
And as a further safeguard top will henceforth include
'system' specific headers after the standard includes.
Craig Small [Sat, 22 Feb 2014 00:34:53 +0000 (11:34 +1100)]
Added get-trans target to Makefile
The get-trans target rsyncs the latest copies of translation files
from the translation project. I put this target in because I always
forget the exact syntax of the command.
Jim Warner [Thu, 20 Feb 2014 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: restore the former behavior after stderr redirect
When top originally responded to the potential libnuma
stderr write, the library was consistently called with
each refresh cycle. That, in turn, guaranteed that any
warning message would be seen at program end by virtue
of: 1) having been issued before the 2nd refresh cycle
and; 2) benefiting from inherited /dev/null buffering.
A later efficiency refactor meant the numa library may
not always be called with every refresh cycle. Rather,
it was only called if top was in one of two numa views
(the '2' or '3' toggles). That, in turn, resulted in a
loss of any warning message at program end unless numa
mode had been preserved in the rcfile. In other words,
if top was started normally then a single cycle stderr
redirect would have long passed by the time the '2' or
'3' toggle was activated. The warning message actually
was spewed but quickly lost to the full screen refresh
which follows all keyboard interactions with the user.
This commit simply moves the restoration of our stderr
redirect to program end (instead of that first display
refresh). Now, any libnuma stderr warning message will
appear as the concluding output line upon quitting top
without regard to when any numa mode view was invoked.
And since this technique might be useful in some other
context (as an example of how to 'buffer' stderr) it's
been generalized with its own #define. But to maximize
its usefulness, the original redirect should be issued
much earlier in pgm startup than top has chosen to do.
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