Those references below offer more detail regarding the
default startup changes beginning with version 3.3.10.
It is important to remember that all such changes were
supposed to impact only new users or users who had not
saved the personal config file (via that 'W' command).
However, I introduced a bug wherein the rcfile was not
fully honored. This gave the changes a bad reputation.
That bug was corrected in release 3.3.11 but the issue
of default startup options keeps resurfacing. And it's
clear there's no consensus on what should be included.
Our --disable-modern-top configure option is of little
help since it remains an all-or-nothing approach. What
we need is an answer offering unlimited customization.
So, this commit will provide distribution packagers or
system administrators with a much more flexible way to
set their own preferred startup default configuration.
A new rcfile is being introduced: '/etc/topdefaultrc',
whose format/content is the same as a personal rcfile.
Thus once a 'proper' enterprise configuration has been
established and saved via 'W', it can be copied to the
/etc/ directory. Thereafter, startup in the absence of
a saved rcfile will use that configuration as default.
Now if a distribution packager or system administrator
wishes to expose their users to some of top's advanced
capabilities they can do so gradually. Perhaps setting
up graph mode for summary area task and memory display
while retaining the %CPU sort could be tried. Or maybe
showing colors, but better customized for a particular
terminal emulator. Such possibilities are now endless.
[ in exploiting this new capability, i hope that the ]
[ other windows (alt display mode) aren't overlooked ]
Reference(s):
. Sep, 2014 - Not fully honoring rcfile bug discussed
https://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-saved-rcfile-bug
. Oct, 2014 - Attempt to defend new startup defaults
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153049
. Jul, 2015 - Forest vs. %CPU views discussion
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/6
. Oct, 2017 - Question the use of --disable-modern-top
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1499410
. Oct, 2017 - Forest vs. %CPU views discussion again
https://www.freelists.org/post/procps/Forest-mode-by-default-in-top-seems-a-bit-strange
. Dec, 2017 - Rehash of 3.3.10 startup defaults change
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/78
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Well, for some strange unknown reason it happened in a
commit referenced below. But this patch reverts it and
puts this newlib scale_mem on par with the master guy.
[ a little more research reveals that it should have ]
[ been reverted in the 2nd commit shown. that's when ]
[ types were fixed after XTRA_PROCPS_DEBUG was used. ]
Reference(s):
. when 'unsigned' qualifier lost
commit 911083bf76
. when 'unsigned' qualifier not restored
commit 105058ae2d
. when XTRA_PROCPS_DEBUG validation introduced
commit e3270d463d
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
With the help of our Swedish translator, hopefully the
final buglet has now been vanquished in the multi-byte
translation support. This one was a real nasty bugger.
Although it didn't occur with every terminal emulator,
occasionally random text lines were being chopped off.
As it turns out, those terminals were blameless. There
were two separate places in top's show_special routine
where potential multi-byte sequences were inadequately
addressed. Solution: exploit existing utf-8 functions.
[ it also became apparent that the translation hints ]
[ in the top_nls module were deficient. so a special ]
[ caution was added regarding the final line of txt. ]
Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/68
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Since all the necessary utf-8 plumbing is now in place
this commit will extend multi-byte support to user and
group names. Now top will be on a par with the ps guy.
[ plus, it's also my way of showing appreciation for ]
[ all those investments silently made by translators ]
Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/68
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The previous commit implemented multi-byte support for
the basic top user interaction and display provisions.
This commit completes multi-byte support by addressing
that 'Inspect Other Output' feature (the 'Y' command).
Few people probably exploit this very powerful feature
which allows the perusing of any file or piped output.
And even if nobody uses 'Y', someone will stumble over
it on the help screen and try it out. Assuming top was
not built with INSP_OFFDEMO defined, they'll end up on
the screen our translators have faithfully translated.
Without this patch, such a screen would display with a
bunch of 'unprintable' characters which will then show
in the standard (less-like) way as: '^A', '<C3>', etc.
In other words, those poor screens will be a big mess!
[ this program can even display an executable binary ]
[ while at that same time supporting Find/Find Next. ]
[ imagine, a file with no guarantee of real strings! ]
[ just try a Find using less with such binary files. ]
With this commit, the translated 'Y' demo screens will
now be properly shown, providing no invalid multi-byte
characters have been detected. Should that be the case
then they'll be displayed in that less-like way above.
And, if users go on to fully exploit this 'Y' command,
there is a good chance that a file or pipe might yield
output in a utf-8 multi-byte form. Should that be true
such output will thus be handled appropriately by top.
[ in many respects, this change was more challenging ]
[ than the basic support within the previous commit. ]
[ story of my life: least used = most effort needed. ]
Many thanks to our procps-ng translators which enabled
a proper test of these changed 'Y' command provisions:
. Vietnamese: Trần Ngọc Quân
. Polish: Jakub Bogusz
. German: Mario Blättermann
. French: Frédéric Marchal, Stéphane Aulery
[ and my sincerest apologies too, for my negligence! ]
Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/68
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When this project first began implementing translation
support nearly 6 years ago, we overcame many 'gettext'
obstacles and limitations. And, of course, there were
not any actual translations at the time so our testing
was quite limited plus, in many cases, only simulated.
None of that, however, can justify or excuse the total
lack of attention to top's approach to NLS, especially
since some actual translations have existed for years.
When the issue referenced below was raised, I suffered
immediate feelings of anxiety, doubt and pending doom.
This was mostly because top strives to avoid line wrap
at all costs and that did not bode well for multi-byte
translated strings, using several bytes per character.
I was also concerned over possible performance impact,
assuming it was even possible to properly handle utf8.
But, after wrestling with the problem for several days
those initial feelings have now been replaced by guilt
over any trouble I initially caused those translators.
One can only imagine how frustrating it must have been
after the translation effort to then see top display a
misaligned column header and fields management page or
truncated screens like those of help or color mapping.
------------------------------------------------------
Ok, with that off my chest let's review these changes,
now that top properly handles UTF8 multi-byte strings.
. Performance - virtually all of this newly added cost
for multi-byte support is incurred during interactions
with the user. So, performance is not really an issue.
The one occasion when performance is impacted is found
during 'summary_show()' processing, due to an addition
of one new call to 'utf8_delta()' in 'show_special()'.
. Extra Wide Characters - I have not yet and may never
figure out a way to support languages like zh_CN where
the characters can be wider than most other languages.
. Translated User Name - at some future point we could
implement translation of user names. But as the author
of the issue acknowledged such names are non-standard.
Thus task display still incurs no new multi-byte costs
beyond those already incurred in that escape.c module.
For raising the issue I extend my sincerest thanks to:
Göran Uddeborg
Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/68
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
All of top's display was designed to fit into an 80x24
terminal. This includes the help screens plus both the
Summary and Task Areas, assuming no saved config file.
With release 3.3.10, the startup defaults were changed
assuming ./configure --disable-modern-top wasn't used.
This was done in the hope of introducing some users to
unknown capabilities such as colors, forest view, etc.
The purpose of this commit is to coax a few more users
into possibly exploring another capability: scrolling.
We do so by tweaking the default startup display so as
to show full command lines. Now, when things no longer
fit in 80x24, horizontal scrolling might be exploited.
[ of course, this can be reversed with the -c switch ]
[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
In their 3.2.7 version of top, Redhat introduced an -M
switch to automatically scale Summary Area memory data
to avoid truncation (and the resulting '+' indicator).
The procps-ng top does not employ suffixes with memory
data nor does it allow for different scaling with each
separate value. Rather, scaling appears at line start.
If built without ./configure --disable-modern-top, the
Summary Area memory will be scaled at GiB which should
lessen chance of truncation. Otherwise KiB was used to
reflect such memory, increasing the truncation chance.
And while 'W' can be used to preserve some appropriate
scaling value, there are arguments against such rcfile
approaches as cited in the issue and bug report below.
So this commit will bump the Summary Area memory scale
factor from KiB to MiB when using --disable-modern-top
as a concession to that Redhat bug report noted below.
And it also introduces a new command line switch which
can force any desired scaling regardless of the rcfile
or which ./configure option might have been specified.
[ for top's help text we'll show 'E' as if it were a ]
[ switch without arguments in order to keep the help ]
[ text displayable without wrap in an 80x24 terminal ]
[ the man page, however, will show all k-e arguments ]
Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/53https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034466
[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
After much reflection I've come to the conclusion that
displaying 3 decimal places (usually) when memory data
had been scaled is no longer optimal with today's ever
increasing amounts. And given that not all task memory
fields are the same widths, inconsistencies can easily
arise as illustrated and discussed in the issue below.
Instead of unilaterally reducing the number of decimal
places, this commit will sneak in such a change via an
existing configure option that was very likely unused.
The former 'disable-wide-memory' option has now become
'enable-wide-memory', which can be used if the current
behavior (3 decimal places) is preferred. Without that
option, whenever memory is scaled beyond KiB, just one
decimal place will be shown in Summary and Task areas.
And Task area field width will no longer be changed by
this revised configure option. Instead, all such field
widths will now be fixed at the former maximum values.
Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/50
[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Since our library is responsible for NUMA support, and
since the top program already accommodates the lack of
NUMA data, there's no reason that #define NUMA_DISABLE
need be explicitly referenced in the top source files.
Ergo, this commit just eliminates all such references.
Now, top will rely only on procps_stat_reap() results.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit just brings some comments plus identifiers
into agreement with the current newlib implementation.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit provides for raising the total displayable
fields from its current 70 to 86. It also bumps the id
in an rcfile representing the version from 'i' to 'j'.
The increase in number of fields will make sharing the
rcfile with an older top, once it's saved, impossible.
These changes are being done via a #define rather than
hard coded so any such sharing will still be possible.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Since the decision was made to also add that Linux-4.5
support (was only in this newlib branch) to our master
branch, a tweak to newlib's top is necessary. In order
to share the rcfile between them, any fields unique to
a branch must appear last in it's list of enumerators.
And the troublesome field in question above is CGNAME.
It doesn't matter if a unique field is on or off, only
that it, as a higher enum/char, appear after all other
shared fields. Otherwise one risks the 'corrupt' error
message from the top without that field or the display
of the wrong column in the top with that unique field.
[ and strictly speaking, the changes under top_nls.c ]
[ were technically not really necessary. however, we ]
[ choose to maintain strict ordering via enum value. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This patch represents the following minor adjustments:
. the official PROCPS_MEMINFO_VAL macro has become the
basis for our own abbreviated MEM_VAL derivative macro
just like was done for all the other newlib interfaces
. it felt like time to change those forest_?? function
names while maintaining their special relationships to
one another (alphabetic, with each 1 longer than prev)
. and some whitespace was altered and some lines added
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
I've got nothing to add to the commit message but that
doesn't mean I won't produce perfectly justified text.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This guy is the real beneficiary of the new <stat> API
especially when it comes to the DELTA items which were
really the only values of interest (beyond some id's).
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
All other programs were able to accommodate the change
in name from readstat.h to stat.h without modification
because they were all using that procps.h header file.
Well now top can too (providing you ignore a comment).
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Now that the conditional OOMEM_ENABLE has been removed
and more attention recently paid to the 2 oomem fields
it was revealed that Rc.zero_suppress didn't extend to
them. So this commit will just correct that oversight.
And while we're at it, we'll also extend zero suppress
to that NI (nice value) field, which already should've
had it. Plus we trade those namespaces custom suppress
logic for our now slightly enhanced make_num function.
Reference(s):
. removal of misguided OOMEM_ENABLE
commit 64238730fa
. zero suppression only recently added to namespaces
commit b2853ed117
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Beginning with linux-4.5, the following new fields are
being added under that /proc/<pid>/status pseudo file:
. RssAnon - size of resident anonymous memory
. RssFile - size of resident file mappings
. RssShmem - size of resident shared memory
This patch just represents the initial library and top
support, sharing a commit message with 2 more patches.
p.s. locked resident memory support was also added but
isn't directly related to the kernel 4.5 enhancements.
Reference(s):
commit 1f8e41d019
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit is just a cleanup of some extraneous cruft
left after the newlib migrations and summarized below:
. whack the 2nd line of what was an eliminated comment
. eliminated reference to NUM_NS and thus that need to
include the otherwise defunct 'readproc.h' header file
. reference to Frame_maxtask made properly generalized
. all former sort support #define's are now eliminated
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
[ but stay tuned! there is a commit coming soon that ]
[ represents a rather major internal redesign, which ]
[ was prompted by the ps and top adaptation testing. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When top was originally adapted to use that <pids> API,
the forest view support was redesigned since the proc_t
pad_3 byte could no longer be employed to hold a task's
nesting level. The redesign required additional arrays.
Now that the dust is settling on those initial efforts,
that PROCPS_PIDS_noop item was used as a substitute for
the old pad_3 along with a return to the former design.
But, while it proved adequate, the invariant nature for
that item required of top an extra initialization step.
So the library was coaxed into adding one more pid_item
(PROCPS_PIDS_extra) which will, unlike that 'noop' guy,
be reset with each reap. Everybody should be happy now.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
A patch containing the following miscellaneous tweaks:
. remove a function that handled former library errors
[ that function should have gone bye-bye with 3.3.11 ]
[ when those 'wchan' provisions were much simplified ]
. make clearer a distinction between 'new' and 'reset'
[ use PROCPS_PIDS_noop when procps_pids_new() called ]
[ since at that point we are only establishing depth ]
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/newlib-for-pgrep,1
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
A patch containing the following miscellaneous tweaks:
. exploit (actually adapt) a pids.h provided VAL macro
. remove some obsolete, now unused, sort related items
. clarify the comment for specialized extractor macros
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
It was probably always wrong to have a variable length
proc_t structure. This patch takes all remaining oomem
former suse only options and makes them unconditional.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
. didn't need a separate table for enum pids_reap_type
since top's 'Thread_mode' itself can be used directly.
. with pids support & the loss of forest_based(), that
forest_adds() function had to be renamed so the prolog
comment regarding naming convention was still honored.
. adapted to a library change to the pids_reap struct.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
TOP, respond to library change to the pids_reap struct ...
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The newlib informal cutoff for kernel support seems to
be around release 2.6. This commit eliminates any such
support for really old 2.4 and 2.5 kernels within top.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This patch adapts top to exploit the new <proc/pids.h>
interface. And it appears to have reduced top's weight
by a considerable margin. Gone were the sort callbacks
and manipulation of those library flags. Gosh, all top
needs to do now is track some enumerators of interest.
[ whoa, wait just a damn minute. it now appears some ]
[ that weight loss was solely the result of a theft. ]
[ jeeze, we turn our back for just a minute & newlib ]
[ up & steals our pids hashing logic for his history ]
[ needs. oh well, i guess life's just not that fair. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jeeze, to correct spelling on one single word (incure)
you had to go and align the entire comments paragraph?
[ well, at least there's one other minor code change ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit is mostly about eliminating code, now that
a library is responsible for the cpu tics maintenance.
The top program will continue to provide numa support,
without involving the library in any of those details.
[ not to mention all the 'dl' and 'stderr' numa crap ]
With this transfer of the cpu tics duty to our library
the provision associated with the CPU_ZEROTICS #define
could not initially be migrated. The commit referenced
below suggests it may have lost its importance. In any
case such logic may yet be incorporated in the future.
But for now, that #define has been completely removed.
Reference(s):
commit ee3ed4b45e
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit just tweaks top in the following respects:
. for alphabetic integrity, change 'INSP_hdr...' names
. eliminate the -Wsometimes-uninitialized warning that
was found under OSX Yosemite (llvm 6.0/clang-600.0.56)
. update program 'comments' reflecting copyright dates
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
A recent commit eliminated the potential for a storage
violation with forest view mode. It occurred when some
program (erroneously?) created a lengthy forking loop.
However, the associated commit message was misleading.
The message implied that an unexpected order following
a sort on start_time was the cause of storage overruns
and a 'char' used to track nesting level only distorts
the display when it goes negative. Actually, the truth
is really just the opposite. Any start_time sort quirk
causes no harm while that 'char' can yield corruption.
Should some child end up sorted ahead of its parent by
way of an extremely unlikely shared start_time the end
result is such a child will be displayed unnested just
like init or kthreadd along with all its own children.
However, if nesting levels exceeded 255 (and became 0)
a massive array overrun could be triggered when such a
task and *all* its children were added to an array for
the second time. Exactly how much storage was violated
depended on the number of children that zeroed process
had spawned (hinted at via either SIGSEGV or SIGABRT).
The earlier commit limited nested levels to 100 so the
root cause of the storage violation was already fixed.
The potential for distorted nesting levels due to sort
on start_time would seem to remain. But it's extremely
unlikely that 2 tasks would share the same start_time.
Even so, a new #define has been introduced which makes
top impervious to the order of tasks such that a qsort
is no longer necessary (providing an init/systemd task
exists & was harvested as the first task by readproc).
It can be utilized if distorted nesting ever becomes a
real issue. But since there is a 5-10% performance hit
with that, we'll continue using start_time as default.
References(s):
commit ce70017eb1
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit will eliminate a very nasty bug associated
with top's forest view mode. It addresses a potential
SIGSEGV/SIGABRT that was only encountered when another
program (erroneously?) creates a lengthy forking loop.
If the growing list of nested children is sufficiently
fast such that proc_t start_time is duplicated between
children then the sort upon which top relies might not
produce the expected order. That, in turn, could cause
the forest_adds function to initially miss some child.
But that missed child would be caught by forest_create
and eventually would cause our array boundary overrun.
Such overrun occurs when some child of that originally
*missed* child is found and a duplicate add attempted.
In correcting this bug we'll also use this opportunity
to prohibit a borrowed proc_t padding byte (char) from
going negative. If the nesting level exceeded 127, the
effect was an "unnesting" with the snprintf width then
viewed as flag+width also yielding left justification.
Henceforth, we'll limit nesting to 100 with subsequent
children shown as " + ", not the usual " `- " prefix.
References(s):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153642http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/Bug-in-the-forrest-view,6
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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.
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-Possible-bug-in-the-graphs,1
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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 ]
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/systemd-support-to-library,9
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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. ]
Reference(s)
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/tops-graph-mode-saga-continues,3
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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.
Reference(s):
commit f7b84f45c7http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/topwatch-floating-point-input,2
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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.
Reference(s):
commit 1d171ec741
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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! ]
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/topwatch-floating-point-inputhttp://www.freelists.org/post/procps/topwatch-floating-point-input,1
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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 %'.
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/latest-top-enhancements,1
commit 1d171ec741
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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:
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+ 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>
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.
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-wont-compile-anymore
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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.
Reference(s):
. original libnuma stderr response (msg seen)
commit 35dc6dcc49
. numa refractoring for efficiency (msg lost)
commit f12c0d5c6e
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Apparently there are occasions when NUMA nodes may not
always be contiguous. Under such conditions nodes that
were not used would still occupy precious Summary Area
space showing 100% idle, under the '2' command toggle.
With this commit top will no longer display numa nodes
that have no associated cpu when the '2' toggle is on.
But just in case we wish to return to former behavior,
a new #define called OFF_NUMASKIP has been introduced.
And as an aside, a recent refactor mentioned below set
the stage for this patch to be 'self-tuning'. In other
words, if an inactive/non-displayed node should become
active (if even possible), then top will begin showing
such a node automatically with the next screen update.
Unfortunately, all inactive nodes now 'suppressed' are
still accessible via the '3' command. Those nodes will
just be displayed as empty (no associated cpus shown).
This is not really a top problem but more of a libnuma
and/or user deficiency. The library lacks the means to
validate a node id and the user then input a node that
was not even shown under a '2' toggle Summary display.
( too bad libnuma does not offer an 'is_node_active' )
( type function so top could warn a user when such a )
( discontinuous node was requested using his '3' cmd )
( sure, top could achieve this objective himself but )
( that would require making yet another array global )
( which i'm just not in the mood to do - besides, we )
( have already made enough concessions to libnuma.so )
Lastly, an existing #define (PRETEND_NUMA) was changed
to 'disable' node #1 so as to simulate a discontinuous
node. This allows testing of the '2' and '3' commands.
Reference(s):
http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg08671.html
. set stage for self tuning
commit f12c0d5c6e
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The recent addition of namespaces, combined with those
potential suse out-of-memory fields, means that we are
close to the maximum number of fields poor ol' top can
display. Imagine, the really old top was limited to 26
fields (28 with the suse hack) and this top had neared
the version 'g' rcfile limits which were a healthy 55.
This patch adds another 15 fields to the maximum while
making it even easier to increase in the future. Also,
top still silently accommodates older config files all
the way back to the original pre-ng version top-3.2.8!
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When the final solution for cursor positioning for all
^Z or ^C cases was introduced the revised placement of
message line management introduced with the window mgr
'screen' refactor was retained. Those two commits mean
that a former tgoto was no longer needed when clearing
that msg line or displaying the scroll coordinate msg.
This patch eliminates the tgoto employed by frame_make
while assimilating a now defunct show_scroll function.
Reference(s):
. final cursor positioning for ^Z or ^C
commit 46a1356219
. 'screen' window manager refactor
commit 0fe393ff27
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit mostly justs renames a few identifiers but
it also will now suppress any end-of-job report if top
wasn't ended via the 'q' key convention (i.e. signal).
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The title of this commit is actually quite misleading.
Were it more accurate, it would at least mention a tty
emulator's scrollback buffer, which was the cumulation
of a long pursuit to reduce the SIGWINCH overhead when
a window manager carelessly floods an application with
that signal *while* a user is still resizing a window!
Disabling and enabling that scrollback buffer resulted
in the final top display replaced with original screen
contents, a phenomenon acknowledged at the time but it
also represented a user interface change which has now
produced the first request for return to old behavior.
After the SIGWINCH dust settled, another problem arose
regarding behaviors under the 'screen' window manager.
In response, top was refactored a bit to avoid display
corruption. That was before discovering 'screen' could
duplicate the scrollback buffer behavior top expected.
As it turns out, the 'screen' refactoring had probably
made scrollback buffer manipulation unnecessary. Still
one could argue that a window should not be allowed to
scroll while a constantly updating program was active.
The solution represented in this commit returns former
behavior at program end (retaining top's last screen).
And if we ever wish to disable scrollback buffers, the
associated logic was retained but made conditional. It
is not reflected in configure.ac but might be someday.
Lastly, this commit corrects cursor positioning when a
^C is issued under 'Fields Management' at any terminal
that didn't have a scrollback buffer (i.e. a console).
Reference(s):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977561http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-library-miscellaneous-tweaks,1
. screen program refactor
commit 0fe393ff27
. scrollback buffer disabled
commit dedaf6e1a8
. sigwinch management defines
commit adca737758
commit 4f33b6b8c5
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When summary & task area memory scaling was introduced
in release 3.3.6, the memory field widths were widened
slightly so unscaled KiB values could be provided more
consistently and scaled values (beyond MiB) could show
3 decimal places of precision. However, some users may
prefer the former widths/precisions for memory fields.
This commit will provide a build time configure option
to return top to those former defaults as a compliment
to a new %CPU & %MEM field precision configure option.
Reference(s):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707648
commit 21e550bc08
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When summary & task area memory scaling was introduced
in release 3.3.6, the percentage columns were expanded
to provide 3 decimal places of precision. In hindsight
that may have been overkill, making those columns more
of a distraction than useful, with just too much info.
This patch will revert those columns to the former one
decimal place. And as was true, that decimal point may
be sacrificed depending on the number of cpus present.
And, in case anyone might prefer additional precision,
a build option can provide it (--enable-wide-percent).
Reference(s):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707648http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/What-happened-to-my-top,1
commit 21e550bc08
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The NUMA/Nodes support in top has gone through several
evolutions (primarily dealing with build-sys options).
With this commit the library dependency issues are now
moot and the responsibilities for run-time loading and
dynamic linking are assumed by the top program itself.
Henceforth, if top is executed in an environment where
libnuma.so is present, top will offer such extensions.
Even more importantly, when a missing libnuma is later
installed, top will offer numa support auto-magically.
All NUMA/Node build-sys dependencies are thus removed.
The former NUMA_ENABLED define has become NUMA_DISABLE
should anyone wish to test user interface implications
in an environment that *does* have libnuma. It is also
represented as the ./configure option: --disable-numa.
Lastly, the 't' (View_STATES) toggle will be forced on
for sanity whenever the '1', '2' or '3' keys are used.
Reference(s):
. original idea from: Dr. Fink <werner@suse.de>
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-NUMA-node-CPU-utilization-support,18
. original numa suppoort
commit 8d989c68c0
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
With the addition of NUMA/Node support and the ability
to emulate such support even in the absence of libnuma
and numa.h, the maximum number of cpus top can emulate
was increased to make numa emulation more interesting.
( whew, that's an awful lot of "emulates", me thinks )
Reference(s):
commit 8d989c68c0
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit extends the top Summary Area cpu states to
include information on Non-Uniform Memory Architecture
nodes. It is based upon changes originally proposed by
Lance Shelton who was instrumental in the final patch.
With this change, the user will have new commands that
will provide alternatives to the individual cpu stats:
. '2' toggles between cpu & numa node summary displays
. '3' provides node summary and related cpu statistics
These extensions required some minimal system support.
Typically, the numactl package (and maybe libnuma-dev)
are all that's needed to show a single node which owns
all the processors. Failing that, or for slightly more
variety, top also offers a #define named PRETEND_NUMA.
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Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Signed-off-by: Lance Shelton <LShelton@fusionio.com>
This change represents the extension of user filtering
based on inclusion or exclusion. However where 'U'/'u'
filtering provides an either/or choice, this extension
offers multiple choices applicable to multiple fields.
The 'inclusion' and 'exclusion' criteria can be freely
combined making a powerful tool to fine tune a display
and avoid clutter associated with uninteresting tasks.
I'm convinced it offers unimagined future flexibility!
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Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-over-the-top,22http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-over-the-top,8
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
While it's only documented (so far) in commit text and
an occasional email I've tried to maintain some coding
standards primarily for reference/navigation purposes.
They also served, I felt, as useful mental challenges.
Someday I will get around to formerly documenting them
but in the meantime here are the ones for this commit:
. functions are grouped into logical (i hope) sections
. functions & sections are ordered to avoid prototypes
. function names are alphabetical within every section
Thus, given those constraints/objectives, and in order
to prepare for an upcoming Other_Filter feature, a few
things had to be renamed and rearranged. Plus a couple
of other (unrelated) tweaks were made for consistency.
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Reference(s):
commit 270e8e7eebhttp://www.freelists.org/post/procps/PATCH-12-top-restore-terminal-state-on-exit,4
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
if top is suspended while on the 2nd level help screen
the <Enter> key is no longer honored. Thus, users must
use <Esc> to exit help and return to the main display.
Also, line input that was only partially complete when
suspended would still require one additional keystroke
before the read was aborted and the display refreshed.
Lastly, some user interactions might require two input
lines before an operation can be considered completed.
Thus the 2nd line offers another opportunity for users
to suspend top. Resumption would require an extra key.
These issues stem from 2 recent enhancements: preserve
the user context when signaled; complete input editing
with cursor movement keys, insert/overtype modes, etc.
With this patch, the <Enter> key is once again honored
on help screen #2 and partial reads are now completed.
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Reference(s):
bug reported
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-over-the-top,25
response to ^Z (partial solution)
commit 5c3fffcf28
line input editing
commit 477b10c0bd
preserve context with SIGWINCH
commit ba9092ad83
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
After revisiting the issue of a new field, combining 2
existing fields (RES and SWAP), I've decided it indeed
makes sense. After all, with the vastly expanded field
capability and the ease of adding new fields, it would
save some precious horizontal screen real estate while
also eliminating some mental/manual user calculations.
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Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-enhancements-i-hopehttp://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-regression-reports
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
top/top.1 | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
top/top.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
top/top.h | 6 ++++++
top/top_nls.c | 3 +++
4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
This commit just gathers all the logic associated with
resetting/normalizing a single window in one function.
In the future, should the window structure be expanded
to support added functionality, the act of maintaining
it will have been made a little bit easier, hopefully.
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Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The original implementation of input line recall keeps
strings in the order established when initially added.
With this commit, that has been changed so any matched
string moves to the top of the saved input line stack.
[ well technically not the top since that's occupied ]
[ by an 'empty' string which serves multiple masters ]
Thus, the most frequently referenced strings over time
will percolate up and remain the most easily recalled.
But just in case anybody prefers the strict historical
ordering, a #define can restore the original behavior.
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Reference(s):
commit 2efe275512
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
With this commit, users can now retrieve previous line
input for re-editing and/or re-input using the Up/Down
arrow keys (or their aliases). This mirrors the 'bash'
or 'less' interface and represents a major enhancement
achieved via a somewhat minor impact to our code base.
[ 33 lines of code, 5 closing braces & some comments ]
[ all in 1 function, when TERMIOS_ONLY isn't defined ]
Currently, the upper limit for such recallable strings
has been set at 50 but that could be easily increased.
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Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This patch changes the TERMIO_PROXY define back to the
former TERMIOS_ONLY thus changing the top default too.
Plus we can now use true line input editing while also
retaining paste capability. That former native termios
support provided only a limited destructive backspace.
Now we exploit the Left/Right arrow keys, Home/End and
Delete. Plus, the Insert key can toggle overtype mode!
[ The stage is now set for a really huge improvement ]
[ to any user input terminated with the <Enter> key. ]
[ So please stay tuned for the next patch to arrive! ]
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Reference(s):
commit fa21a6ca81
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
With this commit top can now display users which match
a user id/name or just those users which do not match.
The distinction is based on the presence or absence of
a leading exclamation point '!' (C negation operator).
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Reference(s):
Wishlist, http://bugs.debian.org/682086
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Lately, top has begun to rely more and more on dynamic
memory allocations rather than the static buffers that
were found in many of its structures. This was perhaps
most evident in the increasing use of the strdup call.
This commit trades that function call for the internal
equivalent which will protect us from malloc failures.
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No top #define is enabled and that constitutes default
behavior. So whenever a default behavior should change
the define must be changed too if it is to remain off.
This commit simply changes top's default behavior with
respect to allowing/suppressing any potential flood of
SIGWINCH during resize operations, if running under X.
Formerly top would block those signals to reduce costs
of repeated refreshes. That yields a requirement where
the user would have to provide another keystroke for a
final display update. That keystroke may not always be
needed now, but it ultimately depends on some terminal
emulator's scrollback buffer. In any case, the cost of
re-sizing may go up a bit, under most window managers.
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Reference(s):
commit 4f33b6b8c5http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-won-the-sigwinch-warhttp://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-won-the-sigwinch-war,4http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-won-the-sigwinch-war,5
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
After carefully working our way to the point where the
excessive SIGWINCH interrupts are now throttled, along
comes a commit which reverses all those prior efforts.
Actually it doesn't. It simply allows one to choose if
all those efforts should be reversed or remain active.
Why in the world would you even want to consider that?
Quite simply, to opt for responsiveness over overhead.
Oh, and depending on the terminal emulator used for X,
by enabling this OFF_SIGWINCH #define you will be able
to avoid the need for an extra keystroke after resize.
Besides it was an interesting programming challenge to
see just how few lines of code would be needed to make
it possible. Bottom line? Only 1 source line required!
(actually 0 lines, since the define disables one line)
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Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/unwanted-topinspect-window-enclosure-with-the-terminal-size-change
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Whew, it was nip-and-tuck there for awhile but finally
we solved the SIGWINCH overload problem one finds with
most X window managers. Now if a window manager should
try to inundate ol' top with repeated SIGWINCH signals
they won't even be received so can't impact us at all.
And we achieve this miracle having never even issued a
sigprocmask, so all the top code executes with signals
totally unblocked. Intuition suggests it probably rubs
even more salt in the wound, but au contraire mon ami!
The key to our success was simply trading the 'select'
call for its cousin 'pselect'. Not only does that call
provide nanosecond granularity (vs. the former's usec)
but it takes a sigset_t parm which can then atomically
block the troublesome SIGWINCH guy until user input or
optional timeout. Net result? No more signal overload!
Now, if only we could just coax all terminal emulators
into one identical standard buffering scheme plus find
some way to emulate the most recent SIGWINCH, it would
be perfect. We would then obviate the user requirement
of typing yet 1 more key before seeing proper results.
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Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/unwanted-topinspect-window-enclosure-with-the-terminal-size-changehttp://www.freelists.org/post/procps/Sourceforge-project,7
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit primarily involves renaming functions plus
reorganizing logic in preparation for the next changes
which will hopefully yield the 'final solution' to the
excessive SIGWINCH signals under most window managers.
In this specific patch, the most significant change is
the introduction of a new 'ioa' function (io avail) to
focus all logic dealing with unsolicited user keyboard
input and exposed to signals and/or optional timeouts.
That new function is where our signal overload will be
ultimately defeated, if it is at all humanly possible.
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Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/unwanted-topinspect-window-enclosure-with-the-terminal-size-change
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Prior to this commit, top has always taken the easiest
(safest?) approach when dealing with those troublesome
SIGWINCH interrupts. Whenever the user was on a screen
other than the main display, any signal received would
force an immediate exit, returning to the main screen.
With these changes, top will retain the user's current
position regardless of what screen he/she was viewing.
In support the following additional changes were made:
* the initial help screen requires an explicit end key
` not 'any other key' formerly used to request an exit
* the colors mapping screen instructions were improved
* ^Z response was made immediate, eliminating the flag
* the sigaction's SA_RESTART flag had to be eliminated
* sigprocmask logic was normailize to the bare minimum
* the POSIX.1-2004 async-signal safe functions used in
` the signal handlers were acknowledged and documented
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Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/unwanted-topinspect-window-enclosure-with-the-terminal-size-change
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit just addresses the following minor issues:
. eliminate the leading tab character upon error exits
. standardized single key input as 'keyin', not 'chin'
. symbolic keys changed to guarantee no negative value
. placed most 'case' statement labels on a unique line
. standardized lvalue/rvalue convention in while loops
. fixed prototype declaration in the 'debug_END' macro
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There existed a small chance that the display could be
corrupted when a search string was found within a row.
For that to happen, conditions like these were needed:
. a very short Locate string was active in some window
. the string matched part of a terminfo <esc> sequence
. that sequence was used in highlighting running tasks
. the 'x' toggle was active (sort column highlighting)
One solution to this potential problem was to manually
turn off sort column highlighting before using Locate.
But rather than rely on a user remedy, we'll automate.
Since other top provisions were already being enforced
when Locate was in use (off 'i' and/or 'u'/'U'), we'll
now also force column highlighting off when the search
string in a given window is not empty. However, unlike
idle tasks and user filtering, when that search string
*is* emptied, we restore highlighting for that window.
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This commit just addresses the following minor issues:
. restored both lost end-of-job reporting capabilities
. added missing initializers to the DEF_RCFILE #define
. added 'nls_maybe' eye-catcher to the 'Scaled_sfxtab'
. removed a now superfluous 'READMINSZ' assertion test
. man document references to 'top' are more consistent
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This potential problem is caused by frequently spawned
and short lived tasks which happen to sort above a row
containing a match from an active Locate request. It's
most likely to be visible when under Forest View mode.
This commit will eliminate a potential duplicated row.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit is an unrequested outgrowth of the earlier
change dealing with summary area memory field scaling.
That user selectable scaling provision is now extended
to include 6 (at present) task oriented memory fields.
The new companion 'e' (lower case) interactive command
has been added and, like the 'E' command, it can cycle
each of the currently displayed memory columns between
KiB through TiB. There are, however, some differences.
Where '+' indicates summary area truncation at a given
radix, task memory fields are automatically scaled for
their column. Thus, not all rows use the same scaling.
And, while summary area field widths were not changed,
the task memory columns were widened in order to offer
more meaningful data when the radix was increased. The
precision is automatically increased in step with each
radix: MiB displays 2 decimal places, GiB 3 and TiB 4.
To compliment that additional precision, both the %CPU
and %MEM fields were widened by 1 column and now offer
precision up to 3 decimal places. But, unique to %CPU,
widening could already have occurred due to the number
of processors in some massively parallel boxes. At any
rate, total extra width for both memory and percentage
fields could amount to twenty (precious) columns more.
So for both the memory and % fields the original width
(along with loss of precision) can be restored via new
compiler conditionals which this commit also provides.
p.s. and it will be rcfile preserved for any restarts!
(now that we know a '.' + 2 spaces is squeezed to one)
(everything's perfectly justified, but it's just luck)
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-regression-reports
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Earlier this year, the switch from KiB to Mib as shown
in top's summary area was postponed to those occasions
when KiB exceeded 8 digits. In hindsight that may have
moved top in the wrong direction, given the difficulty
of digesting such large numbers of digits at a glance.
This commit adds a new 'E' interactive command used to
cycle the displayed memory amounts ranging from KiB to
TiB. Thus, users can choose the radix they wish shown.
p.s. and it will be rcfile preserved for any restarts!
(now that we know a '.' + 2 spaces is squeezed to one)
(everything's perfectly justified, but it's just luck)
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-regression-reports
commit 95f2201730
Author: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Date: Mon Feb 6 00:00:00 2012 -0500
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
With the recent inspect search highlight provisions in
place, the lack of highlighting in task based searches
has grown from being only irritating to a real defect.
Thus, this commit introduces parallel functionality to
those searches initiated within a visible task window.
And just as separate inspect searches are possible for
each selection, per window task searches are provided.
However, it should be noted that there are differences
between task based searches and inspect type searches:
* There is no concept of out-of-view data when dealing
. with task rows -- if the data can't bee seen, it has
. not, in fact, been constructed from a proc_t struct.
* While inspect data is output at the character level,
. up to now all task display data was only potentially
. output and it was always based on a complete string.
* With task search highlighting, rows now containing a
. match must be output in pieces and, therefore, can't
. be optimized away like other rows which haven't been
. been altered. This is because top cannot predict the
. the contents of a search string or, how many matches
. might occur in a given row. Short search strings and
. many matches would raise buffer needs geometrically.
(now that we know a '.' + 2 spaces is squeezed to one)
(everything's perfectly justified, but it's just luck)
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit extends Inspect provisions for 'find/next'
to each individual selection. Thus a user can maintain
multiple active searches without having to reissue the
locate command whenever the current selection changes.
To emphasize this feature the View screen now displays
the current active locate string or 'N/A' if inactive.
Such a reminder is important when no found matches are
present on the 1st display page, given that they would
otherwise be apparent via the additional highlighting.
(now that we know a '.' + 2 spaces is squeezed to one)
(everything's perfectly justified, but it's just luck)
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
We have modeled the Inspect search provisions on those
provided by the 'less' pager. With this commit we take
the next step and provide for highlighting any strings
matched (and in view). Of course, top will continue to
adjust the beginning column so as to bring out-of-view
matches into view, while highlighting visible matches.
However, top won't emulate every 'less' behavior since
the following are seen as flaws in the user interface.
* when viewing true binary data, less makes no attempt
. to smooth the right margin by truncating unprintable
. symbols, thus creatng ragged unappealing right edges
* when viewing true binary data, less will always fail
. search requests regardless of surrounding characters
* less refuses to bring out-of-view found matches into
. view by adjusting the left-most column, if necessary
(now that we know a '.' + 2 spaces is squeezed to one)
(everything's perfectly justified, but it's just luck)
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Previously top would warn users if an older version of
an rcfile was about to be overwritten. That's assuming
that RCFILE_NOERR was not defined. This left, however,
other potential rcfile issues or questions unattended.
For example, if a faulty 'inspect' redirected echo had
overwritten all window entries or if the inspect entry
was not 'pipe' or 'file' (actually, just a 'p' or 'f')
then top would silently accept it but look no further.
With this commit top will try to process every inspect
entry, while preserving unrecognized entries. Plus all
other non-fatal rcfile errors will now alert a user to
the potential overwrite when the 'W' command is given.
(now that we know a '.' + 2 spaces is squeezed to one)
(everything's perfectly justified, but it's just luck)
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit introduces an extremely powerful, flexible
brand new capability. Now, users can pause the normal
iterative display and inspect the contents of any file
or output from any script, command, or even pipelines.
It's invoked via the 'Y' interactive command which, in
turn, is supported with simple user supplied additions
as new entries in the top personal configuration file.
A separate new 'Inspect' window supports scrolling and
searching, similar to the main top display. Except it
extends existing 'L'/'&' (locate/locate-next) commands
so that an out-of-view match automatically adjusts the
horizontal position bringing such data into view. And
it provides for multiple successive same line matches.
Also, the basic 'more/less' navigation keys are active
in this new 'Inspect' window, to ease user transition.
There are no program changes required when entries are
added to or deleted from the rcfile. And there are no
known limits to the complexity of a script, command or
pipeline, other than the unidirectional nature imposed
by the 'popen' function call which top cannot violate.
Since it's impossible to predict exactly what contents
will be generated, top treats all output as raw binary
data. Any control characters display in '^C' notation
while all other unprintable characters show as '<AB>'.
The biggest problem encountered was with the find/next
capability since that strstr guy was really diminished
given the possibility that numerous 'strings' could be
encountered *within* many of top's raw, binary 'rows'.
Oh, and another problem was in maintaining the perfect
left & right text justification of this commit message
along with all of the commit summaries. Some of those
summaries (like this very one) are of course, slightly
shorter, to make room for the 'man document' addition.
Enjoy!
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The 'refactor and enhance column width management'
recent redesign produced many subsequent benefits,
the latest of which is automatically sized fixed-width
non-scalable columns.
As expected, there was a cost associated with these
many enhancements. That cost has now been identified
as a 1-4% performance degradation, depending on which
fields are being displayed.
This increased cost arises principally from current
drawing related function calls, whereas top-3.3.3 did
most of its drawing via macros effectively inlining
those duties.
This commit inlines the equivalent drawing functions,
thus eliminating the function call penalty, and places
this top on a par with top-3.3.3. The trade off is a
modest additional 4k in executable size.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The recent introduction of a column widths override
(the 'X' command) provided for a user input amount
to be added to default field size which ranged from
5 to 10 bytes.
While that approach could prevent truncated data, the
different default sizes would almost certainly mean
some precious screen real estate was waisted.
This commit introduces the concept of dynamic widths
where top will add only enough to a field default to
prevent truncation for that specific field.
Now users have a choice between their explicit width
override or a width chosen by top to exactly match
display needs. The former is immediate but likely
wastes some horizontal space while the latter is
iterative but will be sized precisely.
Original 'X' Command:
commit 384afa494a
commit 47e1d063ac
Extensions to 'X' Command:
commit bbf8e44fb4
commit 7557f3f754
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit accommodates those fields which may have
suffered truncation due to these default limits:
. 5 digits for uid/gid type fields
. 8 characters for user/group type fields
With a new interactive command, users can increase the
width of all such fields, or return to the defaults.
Note:
There are no restrictions on the amount added to
the defaults. The user is free to vastly exceed
screen limits which simply means such fields can
never be displayed.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit affords user control over justification
for both column headings and the subordinate data.
Separate toggles are provided for control of numeric
data and string data.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Now that column headings are independent of column
data format and require no carefully managed padding
bytes they are candidates for nls translation.
This commit migrates all column headings to the .pot
file with additional translator guidance in the form
of maximum sizes to avoid truncation.
It also places these new additions adjacent to their
associated descriptions, which were already present.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit accomplishes the following objectives:
* remove extra task_show parm added with 'Locate'
* avoid column overflow with subsequent misalignment
* eliminate spaces for column heading padding
* decouple column headings from column data formats
* eliminate all hardcoded column format specifiers
* generalize the inter-column spacing management
* remove Fieldstab.desc in favor of direct nls access
* set the stage for nls support of column headings
* set the stage for dynamic changes to justification
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The TREE_RESCANS #define (formerly TREE_ONEPASS) has
been eliminated and the approach to forest view mode
redesigned. The chance of dangling children has been
eliminated and overhead reduced.
We now order processes on start_time (non-display)
and are therefore immune to any pid, ppid or tgid
anomalies when pid values wrap.
The new algorithm also accommodates any distortions
caused by the 3.3 kernel 'hidepid' provisions --
something guaranteed to produce dangling children
under the former approach.
Related References:
commit a2086dfdf6
commit cd608f462e
commit 41ed28aa5d
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The recent introduction of scrollable variable width
columns makes a process 'environment' a potentially
useful addition to top's displayable fields.
This commit exploits the following new library flag:
PROC_EDITENVRCVT
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
In an effort to avoid dangling children when in forest
view mode, top defaulted to a complete rescan of every
proc_t for each child encountered.
That expense was never really cost justified and now
with the 3.3 kernel 'hidepid' provisions it no longer
can offer such protection.
With this commit, the TREE_ONEPASS define is changed
to TREE_RESCANS so as to reverse the default scan
behavior.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit represents mostly spelling corrections
in comments. It also includes a few very minor logic
changes/relocations.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
With the introduction of intra-column scrolling, the
scroll coordinates message was enhanced to give some
hint of positioning within a scrolled column.
Rather than rebuild this somewhat costly string from
scratch with each frame, we'll now do the bulk of the
work only when column headers are constructed.
The only remaining per frame costs will then be the
addition of a few terminfo escapes and the current
Frame_maxtask count.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit introduces horizontal scrolling within any
variable width column. Thus, an entire command line,
complete list of control groups, etc. can now be
viewed -- not just a screen width's portion.
It is activated when any variable width column:
. is (via field selection) or
. has become (via the right arrow key)
the only displayed field.
Then, the right and left arrow keys can be used in the
normal way to continue scrolling within that column.
The amount scrolled with each key press is currently
set as the normal tab stop increment of 8 characters.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When top introduced true line input editing, the
ability to paste keystrokes was lost. This remains
a necessary evil so that top has an opportunity to
translate cursor motion keystrokes into terminfo
escapes during line input. Motion keys themselves,
of course, can never be pasted.
If pasting ever became more important than input
editing, then native termios support should have been
available via a define called TERMIOS_ONLY. But a
recent commit, eliminating what was thought to be
obsolete logic, rendered the alternate linein()
function virtually useless.
Similar to top-3.2.8, when native termios input is
functional, these abberations can be experienced:
. cursor motion keys will appear as escapes
. excessive input can cause line wraps
. ^Z during i/p is not be honored until <Enter>
. SIGWINCH during i/p corrupts screen temporarily
In hindsight, it now seems that the ability to paste
keystrokes may indeed outweigh any shortcomings of
native termios support. This is especially true if
one is preparing to search ('L') for some lengthy
process command line contined in the clipboard.
Thus, this patch fixes the alternate linein() function
and changes TERMIOS_ONLY to TERMIO_PROXY so that top
now defaults to using native termios input. In turn,
that will restore the paste keystrokes capability.
Reference(s):
commit: 045538e01b
Reported by: sergio <mailbox@sergio.spb.ru>
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/663334
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
These per instance warnings have been eliminated:
warning: range expressions in switch statements are non-standard
warning: padding struct to align 'winflags'
warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
These per instance warnings have not been addressed
since they simply trade one warning for another:
From:
warning: ISO C does not permit named variadic macros
warning: ISO C does not support the '%Lu' gnu_scanf format
To:
warning: anonymous variadic macros were introduced in C99
warning: ISO C90 does not support the 'll' gnu_scanf length modifier
Lastly, since all C compilers have supported use of
C++ style comments for the past 20 years, the top
program will never trade them for the often more
cumbersome C style comments simply to avoid this
once per source file warning:
warning: C++ style comments are not allowed in ISO C90
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Under openSUSE, old top uses additional fields for
out-of-memory reporting. As a result, under the
original approach to rcfile conversion, new top would
issue a fatal corrupt window entry message asking that
the rcfile be deleted.
This patch extends the conversion range to include
the extra openSUSE field characters. It's effective
when ./configure specifies the --enable-oomem option
which in turn defines OOMEM_ENABLE.
This commit also makes the conversion logic slightly
more forgiving. While enforcing an upper limit on the
expected number of old style field characters, amounts
less than that will be handled seemlessly.
Reference:
commit 4b98733132
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
At one time, new top silently defaulted when an rcfile
was found to be incompatible. This is exactly what
the old top did. However, after some discussion it
was decided top should alert the user and thereby
save the system administrator some headaches.
Now, some are upset over the fatal error, proving you
can't please everybody. But in all fairness, given
the difficulty of customizing old top, any reluctance
to delete an old saved rcfile is understandable.
To ease transition to this new top, old style rcfiles
will now be honored and converted to the new format.
And if not disabled at ./configure time via CFLAGS,
a user will be warned when an old style rcfile is
about to be overwritten using the 'W' command.
Lastly, the config validation logic was enhanced to
help ensure both types of rcfile haven't been edited
manually and possibly made unuseable.
Reported-By: sergio <mailbox@sergio.spb.ru>
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/651213
Reported-By: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/651863
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Until the 'locate/search' provisions were added,
top avoided the need for any function prototypes
through careful source file organization. But
the addition of the find_string function required
a prototpe for task_show, lest a massive file
reorganization be undertaken.
This commit moves the actual protype out of top.h
and places it adjacent to the caller in order to
avoid a warning when top_nls.c is compiled.
References:
commit 270e8e7eeb
commit d6e6a9aa38
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
All top.h defines were lumped together as:
'Development/Debugging defines'
This commit establishes this new category:
'Defines represented in configure.ac'
And that new category now contains OOMEM_ENABLE,
which enables the SuSE out-of-memory additions
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
At one time the 'open_psdb_message' library call was
supported with the concept of a postponed message
which would display after top startup completed.
In turn, that required logic to strip the '\n' which
was embedded (inappropriately) in any such message.
Nowdays top treats such a returned error as fatal so
there is no need for the 'strim' function which is
being removed with this commit.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
We originally approached the potential problem of
% CPU distortions as unique to Nehalem type cpus.
The latest information suggests that it may have
been due to a kernel anomaly that has since been
corrected.
Yet even without such a cpu, wide disparities in
tics allocation among all available cpus have
sometimes been observed -- spikes as it were in
the normal pattern. This has happened under both
version 2.26.38-13 and 3.0.0-15 kernels.
The small amount of additional code addressing the
original problem carries very little overhead. It
is being retained to afford protection against any
future tic accounting aberrations.
In this commit, supporting programmer comments have
been divorced from any particular cpu type. Also,
another variable and manifest constant will now be
eliminated when CPU_ZEROTICS is defined.
References:
commit 02508b3d76http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/CStates-handling-new-switch,50
The calibrate_fields function had grown too large and
was adversly impacting maintainence. So half of the
logic was split out into a new function.
Now, maintainence of column headers and the required
library flags is organized as follows:
. adj_geometry (calibrate_fields helper)
provides low-level support for sigwinch, memory
. build_headers (calibrate_fields helper)
constructs the headers and library flags
. calibrate_fields
establishes which fields will be displayed
( note the alpha order mentioned in a prior commit )
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The top program is carefully organized into sections
and those sections are carefully placed so as to avoid
the need for prototypes. *
Additionally, names of functions are carefully chosen
to maintain alphabetical order within each section.
The names of most 'helper' functions, which are always
placed immediately above the calling functions, often
only met the spirit of the alphabetical law, not the
actual letter of that law.
This commit alters the names of such helper functions
so as to mainatin strict ascii alphabetical order
within each section.
* the single exception to prototypes is find_string,
which calls the task_show function, and would have
prompted a massive reorganization.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The recently added logic dealing with "missing" tics
is mutually exclusive with logic associated with a
define called CPU_ZEROTICS.
This commit expands the use of that define to exclude
such Nehalem logic as appropriate.
It also extends programmer notes in top.h to include
an attribution for initiating the topic of potential
Nehalem type % CPU distortions, acknowledging:
Jaromir Capik, <jcapik@redhat.com>
References
commit ce1410a51a
commit 9e7dd43ab7
commit a9041a5526
Due to a poorly constructed temporary fprintf
used during development, an earlier commit went
a little too far in its computations. The net
result was the code looked nice but actually
accomplished nothing.
It is the /proc/stat line 1 (summary line)
whose tics must be used in establishing the
threshold boundary. And that calculation
need be performed just once per frame.
This commit ensures one threshold calculation
per delay interval no matter how many cpus
are ultimately displayed.
It also corrects scalability by factoring in
the total number of online processors.
Reference:
commit 9e7dd43ab7
The original approach to potential % CPU distortion due
to Nehalem type cores being turned off completely when
idle worked ok until the user typed something.
At that point, elapsed tics would no longer equal the
calculated value producing an undesirable 100% idle
condition until the next update or <Enter/Space> key.
This commit employs actual elapsed tics in determining
whether a cpu should be considered idle and thus makes
top's individual cpu display immune to user keystrokes.
This patch provides for cpu cores which can be turned
off completely when idle (Nehalem, etc.) thus registering
very few or no tics since the last update cycle.
When CPU_ZEROTICS is not defined (the default), any
displayed cpu with less than a certain amount of total
tics will show as 100% idle. That amount is tempered
by the delay interval and total number of cpus.
This commit also satisfies the Debian 'top_nohz' patch
(11/24/09) in a slightly more efficient manner. That
patch concerned kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ.
Reference:
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/CStates-handling-new-switch,4
Prior to this patch, top was able to handle any hotplugged
cpus *added* to the system in two distinct ways.
1) Newly added cpus would be detected by sysinfo_refresh
calling the library's cpuinfo function, which occurs
at most every 5 minutes.
2) The user could force a refresh using either the
<Enter> or <Space> keys.
Unfortunately, the *loss* of a cpu would produce an early
exit due to a /proc/stat read failure. Such a failure
can be produced in the following way:
sudo echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu??/online
This commit allows top to tolerate the loss of cpus.
It also provides for more efficient CPU_t management,
especially for massively parallel cpu environments.
Note: Changes to the cpu compliment can produce a single
cycle distortion of cpu percentages. Such distortion is
most visible when each cpu is being displayed. It can
be eliminated with a forced refresh via <Enter>/<Space>.
This commit addresses a long standing buglet (debian #441166) which
surfaces when the display mode is switched between task and threads.
An extra procps refresh is now forced upon such a transition which
parallels the approach used at startup for the exact same reason.
Reference: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=441166
This commit corrects some outdated programmer comments.
Additionally, certain nls justifications might become
increasingly obscure with the passage of time so some
previous nls commit text has been added as comments.
summary of changes:
. adopted relative paths to 'include' and 'proc'
dirs so that stand alone compiles are made
easier and no one need guess their locations
. corrected several names for enums and macro
usage reflecting fmt vs. txt
. expanded all octal escape sequences to a full
3 digits since one already required 3 digits
. finalized translator hints (for now)
programming note:
as an aside, by not including an argument for
the gettext --add-comments, any preceeding c
style comment will be propagated to the .pot
file, if the gettext macro isn't empty.
/* Need Not Say 'TRANSLATORS' ...
snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s", _( // unseen
/* Translator Hint: ...
snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s", _("" // seen
