killing a process in TCL
How to kill a process in TCL with no binary or tclx
Sneak peek of top graphs
Jim has been busy as part of the procps-ng team that looks after top. Basically all the changes you find in top from around 2.7 or so are by him. Not satisfied enough with fixing top, making it faster and showing more fields, he has given us CPU and memory graphs. He also thinks I…
Debian's procps 3.3.9
While the upstream procps which was released last week has a new pidof, the Debian package will continue to not have that binary and the Debian sysvint-utils package will continue to have that file. That stops any messy procps splits and putting one part into Essential etc. This may mean that one distributions pidof doesn’t…
procps-ng 3.3.9
Procps version 3.3.9 was released today. As there has been some API changes and fixes which means the library has changed again. There is a fine balance between fixing or enhancing library functions and keeping the API stable, with the added problem it wasn’t a terribly good one to start with. Besides the API change,…
pidof moving to procps
pidof is a program that finds the PID of a named program. In some ways it is like a cut-down pgrep found in the procps package. pidof currently sits in sysvinit-tools. There are plans to move all utilities that use the proc filesystem under one package which will make the maintenance of them simpler, which…
props-ng 3.3.8
Procps-ng 3.38 was released yesterday. Besides the bug fixes,there have been two main enhancements: NUMA and systemd support. top comes with NUMA support which is a soft dependency, meaning that if compilied with the support, top will try to link at runtime to libnuma. The new key presses are ‘2’ and ‘3’ which will show…
procps-ng 3.3.7 Released
procps-ng version 3.3.7 was released today. It has some new and interesting features in the top program that Jim has been busy working on. There is a new filter feature which can exclude fields that match a value for example. The remainder of the changes are small bug fixes and getting the compile warnings count…
procps 3.3.6 and Mudlet 2.0
Yesterday was a busy Debian day for me with the release of not one but two packages. procps procps version 3.3.6 was released both as an upstream and a Debian package. While there were many bug fixes in this release, the main new feature for it was the top inspect feature. The top inspect feature…
procps-ng 3.3.5
Are you using procps 3.3.4? My suggestion is you don’t! An API change slipped through which mean if you tried to run procps 3.3.5 on libproc 3.3.4 it did strange things. One of those strange things is ps ax crashes. Top looked rather interesting as well. This in turn upsets the boot sequence around mounting…
procps-ng 3.3.3 released
This weekend procps-ng version 3.3.3 was tagged and released for distribution. There have been many patches and fixes involved in this release as we move from an unchanging static sort of code into something that is easier to maintain and build on various architectures. The good thing is I’m down to 1 or 2 patches…