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Jim Warner
d310a18fc2 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 ]

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/systemd-support-to-library,9

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-18 20:49:57 +02:00
Jim Warner
9500dc198c 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>
2014-07-18 20:49:57 +02:00
Jim Warner
e4f0b4ebf3 library: tweak newly added MemAvailable fall-back code
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.

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/systemd-support-to-library,7
. fall-back calculations
commit b779855cf1

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-18 20:49:57 +02:00
Jim Warner
6c148b4f8b docs: with systemd now in library, remember openproc.3
[ plus remove just a little darn trailing whitespace ]

Reference(s):
. systemd migrated to library
commit 9d8ad6419f
. added library documentation
commit a74fb8fade

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-18 20:49:57 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
2577da66b1 docs: Add the 'MemAvailable' availability in free.1 2014-07-17 17:02:27 +02:00
Jim Warner
1da2c98937 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>
2014-07-17 13:31:06 +02:00
Jim Warner
93d37cf57a ps: exploit library systemd support vs. internal logic
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-17 13:31:06 +02:00
Jim Warner
9d8ad6419f library: generalize then add former 'ps' systemd logic
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-17 13:31:06 +02:00
Jim Warner
d187304854 ps: clarify which options depend on systemd in man doc
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-17 13:31:06 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
6dbe8fd18e docs: top.1 minor fix
RES - memory task has used -> is using
2014-07-17 13:08:29 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
f8128568d6 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.
2014-07-16 14:29:42 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
b779855cf1 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).
2014-07-15 19:17:02 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
d75d8addc6 library: additional comments to the buffer size increase 2014-07-14 19:44:14 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
b2ad21990a library: fixing buffer sizes in sysinfo.c 2014-07-14 19:07:25 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
d4ddc96bc1 library: changing P_G_SZ from 20 to 33
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.
2014-07-14 16:21:52 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
0393047a4f library: removing note about PROC_{PID,UID} being obsolete 2014-07-14 16:12:53 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
a74fb8fade docs: adding openproc(), readproc() and readproctab() man 2014-07-14 16:07:23 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
ba6396f886 free: support for MemAvailable
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.
2014-07-11 22:34:06 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
e751606fcc ps: add -q/q/--quick-pid option
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.
2014-07-10 21:24:19 +02:00
Jim Warner
6cd8691720 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.

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/latest-top-enhancements,7

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-07 18:43:52 +02:00
Jim Warner
1dd0c4d07f top: as with ps, distinguish between 'T' and 't' state
Wow, even the linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
document doesn't provide us with that level of detail.

Thank you, Jaromir, for your additional clarification!

Reference(s):
commit 411d218793

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-07 18:43:52 +02:00
Jim Warner
a7741055f1 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>
2014-07-07 18:43:52 +02:00
Jim Warner
206570e8c4 top: with new startup defaults, tweak the man document
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-07 18:43:52 +02:00
Jim Warner
c75586f523 top: eliminated unreferenced macros & an error message
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-07 18:43:52 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
4ba9ff5c0d pgrep: Fixing regression in exitcodes
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.
2014-07-02 17:42:08 +02:00
Jaromir Capik
411d218793 docs: distinguish between T/t in the ps.1 manual 2014-07-02 16:23:30 +02:00
Craig Small
d2f93ae507 Added polish translation 2014-07-01 21:48:27 +10:00
Jim Warner
8ef6cd91fc 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. ]

Reference(s)
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/tops-graph-mode-saga-continues,3

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-01 21:30:46 +10:00
Jim Warner
2199af404a top: maximize recent locale aware numeric enhancements
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 f7b84f45c7
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/topwatch-floating-point-input,2

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-07-01 21:30:45 +10:00
Craig Small
cacba5613e 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.
2014-07-01 18:51:21 +10:00
Jim Warner
96c330e3b3 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.

Reference(s):
commit 1d171ec741

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-06-28 23:46:40 +10:00
Jim Warner
805532ac32 top: fix translation hint to preserve graphs alignment
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-06-28 23:46:40 +10:00
Craig Small
0f8f760307 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.
2014-06-28 23:38:13 +10:00
Craig Small
889ad23842 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.
2014-06-25 23:11:15 +10:00
Jim Warner
f7b84f45c7 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! ]

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/topwatch-floating-point-input
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/topwatch-floating-point-input,1

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-06-25 13:58:31 +02:00
Jim Warner
cec1976511 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>
2014-06-25 13:58:30 +02:00
Craig Small
62dcbe3188 Fix some man-po stuff for distcheck
distcheck failed because the man-po scripts weren't sourcing or
escaping the directories correctly.

This is a partial fix, but at least distcheck is happy.
2014-06-24 22:20:13 +10:00
Jim Warner
db6381ae04 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>
2014-06-24 20:38:30 +10:00
Jim Warner
41ab7f005e 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>
2014-06-24 20:38:30 +10:00
Jim Warner
d8a8822b5f 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.

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/latest-top-enhancements,1

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-06-24 20:35:20 +10:00
Jim Warner
b8614adcb5 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 %'.

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/latest-top-enhancements,1
commit 1d171ec741

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-06-24 20:35:20 +10:00
Jim Warner
f33d49c6cf 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.

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/latest-top-enhancements
commit 1d171ec741

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-06-24 20:35:20 +10:00
Jim Warner
ff7af8d982 NEWS: update with accumulated changes for next release
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-06-22 21:39:55 +10:00
Jim Warner
77376e5c67 top: add graphs modes for cpu and memory, man document
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2014-06-22 21:39:55 +10:00
Jim Warner
1d171ec741 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>
2014-06-22 21:39:55 +10:00
Jim Warner
318919094d 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>
2014-06-22 21:39:55 +10:00
Craig Small
24432f3b21 Fixed translate-man.sh for no top ps
the script errored when top or ps translations didnt exist
this minor fix skips those if they dont exist.
2014-05-28 20:12:33 +10:00
Craig Small
283d146602 New translations
Added German, Polish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese translations
2014-05-28 19:53:14 +10:00
Craig Small
4d31ff86ce Translated man page scripts
Mario sent some scripts to maintain translated man pages.
This commit is almost the same scripts with minor adjustments.

Reference: http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/Translations-for-man-pages,17
2014-05-28 19:51:37 +10:00
Jim Warner
23ebb9f44d 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>
2014-05-28 06:53:19 +10:00