The man page has examples like sysctl -p filename. Optional arguments
using getopt cannot have a space between the option and argument.
So the correct format is sysctl -pfilename
Ps command does not display the nice value for processes with the SCHED_BATCH
scheduler policy, only for SCHED_OTHER.
Boinc (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/) client runs project processing jobs on
Linux using SCHED_BATCH scheduler policy and nice value 19. The nice value
is not displayable by ps.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run process using SCHED_BATCH scheduler policy with nice value.
./test-schedbatch 18 &
2. Display process details:
ps -o pid,ppid,user,comm,cls,nice
Results before:
[mike@rockover c]$ ps -o pid,ppid,user,comm,cls,nice
PID PPID USER COMMAND CLS NI
18205 2540 mike bash TS 0
20552 18205 mike test-schedbatch B -
20553 18205 mike ps TS 0
[mike@rockover c]$ awk '{printf "%5d %-17s %1d %2d\n", $1, $2, $41, $19}'
/proc/20552/stat
20552 (test-schedbatch) 3 18
Results after this patch:
[mike@rockover c]$ ps -o pid,ppid,user,comm,cls,nice
PID PPID USER COMMAND CLS NI
18205 2540 mike bash TS 0
20552 18205 mike test-schedbatch B 18
20553 18205 mike ps TS 0
Additional info: Here is the fragment from the sched_setscheduler(2) manual
page on the subject:
SCHED_BATCH: Scheduling batch processes
(Since Linux 2.6.16.) SCHED_BATCH can only be used at static
priority 0. This policy is similar to SCHED_OTHER in that it
schedules the process according to its dynamic priority (based on the
nice value). The difference is that this policy will cause the
scheduler to always assume that the process is CPU-intensive.
Consequently, the scheduler will apply a small scheduling penalty with
respect to wakeup behaviour, so that this process is mildly disfavored
in scheduling decisions.
This policy is useful for workloads that are noninteractive, but do
not want to lower their nice value, and for workloads that want a
determin- istic scheduling policy without interactivity causing extra
preemptions (between the workload's tasks).
Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741090
Acked-by: Jaromir Capik <jcapik@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Mike Fleetwood <mike.fleetwood@googlemail.com>
On non-linux systems, uts.version provides the version of that
specific kernel (FreeBSD or Hurd version, for example) and not the
emulated procfs pseudo version.
On those systems we need to directly read /proc/version and parse the
string. This change replaces Debian patches gnu-kbsd-version and
complain_unmounted_proc patches.
procps automake defines restrict which means the binaries for procps
binaries compile. However external programs may not of defined
restrict which means they will not complie if they include files found
in /usr/include/proc.
Includes from libc6 use __restrict and if is good enough for
them, its good enough for us.
Makes Debian patch makefile_watch_ncurses redundant.
watch was being linked to NCURSES_LIBS when it should of been
WATCH_NCURSES_LIBS which can be ncursesw with 8bit enabled.
Even as conservative project as coreutils has switched to xz distributions so
neither should we have any reason to use gz and waste space & bandwidth.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Change information submission address to be procps@freelists.org and
instruct people to send patches in 'git am' friendly format.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
The option -f used too print `-' to FROM column when host was not
known. This commit changes behaviour back to what it was earlier.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
The patch also has other maintenance fixes, such as man header fixes,
high lighting corrections and add bug report address.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Commit 0ac63f5bc1 messed up header
print order; the Total Slabs and Total Caches where reported in place
of each other.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
This change allows user to see what was the last message before exit
on error, and when where the last update.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/654368
On systems with very large amonut of RAM when they use the -b or --bytes
option on free you get overflow and free shows a negative amount of
memory, which is obviously wrong.
The handling of the -c (count) option in free uses the standard string
handling and error utils. The program also checks for negative counts
and errors on these.
The -e option would print a confusing error message. This is because
most error messages in watch are one word. This fix makes a more
sensible message about what went wrong.
The -x option exited before the endwin() function was called, so if the
child process died the terminal was left in a funky state. endwin is now
called just before the exit(8) for the -x option.
Some of the latest changes to Makefile.am files are missing.
This patch restores the LOCALEDIR variable, among others,
and dispenses with the include directives in the ps/ and top/
subdirectories since they're no longer needed.
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.
This commit represents an experiment in nls help text support.
The word --help itself been made translatable along with the
help section names and their abbreviations. Thus, the work of
the translators will ultimately alter program run-time behavior.
Perhaps someday all "long" options can behave in a similar way
which could offer a considerable benefit to other languages.
Instead of translationg just option descriptions, the long
forms of those options could also be transalated.
This commit also:
. includes the section abbreviations in --help output
. isolates all --help support in the ps/help.c module
. provides (hopefully) meaningful Translator guidance
. removes --help support from the ps/common.h header
. removes --help support from the ps/parser.c module
. eliminates tabs in line with the style of other ps modules
. eliminates the need for the include/c.h header file
This commit is prmarily concerned with elimnating deugging only
code from the nls template file.
It also eliminates any remaing useless trailing whitespace.
This patch mostly reorganizes include files and eliminates
some useless trailing whitespace.
It also adopts the standard procps-ng unconditional approach
to nls initialization.
err and warn are BSD format but they are not recommended by library
developers. However their consiseness is useful!
The solution is to use some macros that create xerr etc which then
just map to the error() function. The next problem is error() uses
program_invocation_name so we set this to program_invovation_short_name
This is a global set but seems to be the convention (or at least errors
are on the short name only) used everywhere else.
The library used to be called libprocps but it was renamed to make sure
there was only one. However the formatting of the library SONAME has
changed so there cannot be any confusion.
libprocps makes it clear that its a library from this project and not a
set of functions directly on the filesystem.
The Kbytes column when using the pmap -x flag would always be zero. This
was because the diff variable was reset before it could be printed.
pmap with no -x was not impacted by this bug or fix.
