[procps] procps 3.2.0
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From: <pro...@li...> - 2004-02-23 22:12:25
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This release introduces the slabtop tool, used for viewing kernel memory usage. The pmap tool has changed greatly. Procps 3.2.0 is required for the 2.6.4 kernel, and for SELinux on recent 2.4.xx kernels. For those of you still upgrading from procps 2.0.xx releases, you can expect: * ps fully supports thread display (H, -L, m, -m, and -T) * ps can display NSA SELinux security contexts * top can show CPU usage for IO-wait, IRQ, and softirq * can set $PS_FORMAT to choose your own default ps format * better width control ("ps -o pid,wchan:42,args") * width of ps PID column adjusts to your system * vmstat lets you choose units you like: 1000, 1024, 1000000... * top can sort by any column (old sort keys available too) * top can select a single user to display * top can be put in multi-window mode and/or color mode * vmstat has the -s option, as found on UNIX and BSD systems * vmstat has the -f option, as found on UNIX and BSD systems * watch doesn't eat the first blank line by mistake * vmstat uses a fast O(1) algorithm on 2.5.xx kernels * pmap command is SunOS-compatible * vmstat shows IO-wait time * pgrep and pkill can find the oldest matching process * sysctl handles the Linux 2.5.xx VLAN interfaces * ps has a new "-F" format (very nice, like DYNIX/ptx has) * ps with proper BSD process selection * better handling of very long uptimes There's a pro...@li... mailing list you can use for feature requests, bug reports, and so on. Use it! Feedback makes things happen. http://procps.sf.net/ http://procps.sf.net/procps-3.2.0.tar.gz ------------- recent changes ------------- procps-3.1.15 --> procps-3.2.0 build on IA-64 again #227933 pmap: output like Solaris 9, not Solaris 7 ps: also handle SELinux on the 2.4.xx kernels top: during a ^Z, the terminal was messed up #228822 future-proof the tty handling (thanks to Zhou Wei) slabtop (Chris Rivera and Robert Love) #226778 pmap: detect the primary stack pmap: -d format free: report high and low memory procps-3.1.14 --> procps-3.1.15 hide kernel PID bug (Linux 2.4.13-pre1 to 2.4.MAX) #217278 #219730 #217525 #224470 ps: faster threaded display top: auto-margin problem #217559 ps: support NSA SELinux, all builds, Linux 2.6+ #193648 sysctl: tweak man page for ESR's broken parser procps-3.1.13 --> procps-3.1.14 top: displays on more genuine serial terminals handle 32-bit dev_t of Linux 2.6 ps: finally, m and -m satisfy the original design ps: distinct per-thread and whole-process pending signals |