* New in version 18 (2001-03-02):
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Right, finally a new release of procinfo.
This release has a number of bugfixes, but I'm pretty sure I've lost
some and introduced some new ones along the way, for which my apologies.
This release is primarily to get a new baseline out for making patches
against, and to fix an annoying 2.4 incompatibility. I wouldn't start
sticking it into distributions just yet if I were you...
+ Disk stats are back again for 2.4 kernels. (Well, some of them. The
kernel only keeps track of stats for block devices up to no. 16 or so,
which for example excludes the second IDE controller, which sits at
major number 22.)
+ Fix for Redhat Bugzilla bug 17391 (when uptime gets too high, procinfo
displays 0.0% cpu related times) by Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>.
+ New feature: Use 'C' to temporarily zero out stats ('checkpointing'),
and 'R' to release the checkpoint (only makes sense in totals mode).
+ Fixed a bug where procinfo would crash if run from a telnet client that
doesn't support the TIOCWINSZ window-size ioctl (a.k.a. the Redmond
Bug). (Thanks to Phil Winans <phil@jtsmith.com> for the bug report.)
+ New option -r adds a "-/+ buffers/cache:" line to the memory info bit,
just like free(1) does.
+ Pressing space in full-screen mode now freezes the display until you
press a key again.
+ Fixed a some non-Intel and/or SMP bugs (thanks to David Landgren
<david@landgren.net>, michaelkjohnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>,Bernhard
Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de> and Chris Lumens <chris@slackware.com>).
Folks, there's really no need for this kind of bugs to pass me by
completely unnoticed if you all would just get together and donate me
some 8-way Alphas or UltraSparcs, you know.
* New in version 17 (1999-05-16):
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+ Sparc fixlet from RedHat (Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>). If you have a
non-Intel-Alpha-Sparc Linux box and you know that timer interrupts are
generated on some specific IRQ line, let me know.
+ Options -s (not that it is actually all that useful) went missing a
while ago but is back again (David <djhill@ameritech.net>).
+ Internal cleanup of the irq stuff. (Should've done that ages ago, the
code is noticeably cleaner now.) This also fixes a bug along the way
where the context switch value would be clobbered over by the irq code.
+ Some minor tweaks to the procinfo manual page.
+ CPU percentages should work OK on SMP boxes now -- user + nice + system
+ idle now adds up to 100%, regardless of the number of CPU's (thanks to
Chris Adams <cadams@ro.com> for reporting and testing). Since we had to
start counting the number of CPUs anyway, procinfo now prints the number
of CPU's on the top line.
+ Fixed lossage when you run procinfo full-screen in combination with -F
or with redirection (thanks to Manfred Lemke <lema0019@fh-karlsruhe.de>
for noting this).
+ Fixed display of modules, devices and filesystems in combination with
odd screen sizes.
* New in version 16 (1998-12-31):
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+ Hopefully made thing saner w.r.t. handling of large numbers of
interrupts.
+ Fixed a problem with interrupts on SMP boxen (noted by dth). Note that
procinfo will only display values for the first CPU.
* New in version 15 (1998-07-04):
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+ Fixed IRQ bug introduced in version 14. Thanks to Samel Vitezslav
<xsamel00@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz>, and Evgeni A. Nurminski
<nurmi@ipm.marine.su>.
+ lsdev parses /proc/interrupts properly again. Since I fixed this by
*simplifying* things I have the lingering suspicion I might have broken
something somewhere else again, but it seems to work with 2.0.33 and
2.1.103. Thanks to Samel Vitezslav for letting me know.
* New in version 14 (1998-05-24):
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+ Forgot to freopen stdin and stderr as well as stdout when using -F,
leading to funny things in full-screen mode. Fixed.
+ Appearantly there are some SMP motherboard out there that can handle 24
IRQ's instead of 16. Fixed, and also to make sure that things still fit
inside 80x24, procinfo now squeezes the IRQ list by default. The -i
option now unsqueezes the display. (Thank you Edwin Huffstutler
<edwinh@computer.org>.)
* New in version 13 (1998-03-07):
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+ Procinfo's gone interactive! :-) Pressing 'q' when running full-screen
exits, pressing 'd' toggles between what the -d option does, etc. etc.
etc. etc. etc.
+ Fixes for Linux/Alpha, relating to the obscene number of IRQ's on that
platform. To make it possible to keep running procinfo full-screen on a
80x24 terminal on Alphas, I've added an option -i that squeezes the IRQ
portion of the display by only printing IRQ's that have either a label
or a non-zero interrupt count. It's not guaranteed to work if you really
*have* a lot of IRQ's allocated, of course, but you can't have
everything.
+ Fixed a not-zero-terminated bug and a driver-name-starts-with-digit bug,
both in the interrupts handling, both thanks to Johan Lindh
<sirreal@warrior.net>.
+ Added a short manpage for socklist.
+ Signal handling cleaned up. This incidentally fixes a bug with
suspending a procinfo compiled with glibc2, which I had brilliantly
predicted way back when I wrote version 0.1 in 1994, long before I'd
even *heard* of glibc2. Clever, huh?
* New in version 12 (1998-01-21):
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+ New utility! Written by Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@jlab.org>. Socklist
gives you a list of all open sockets, enumerating types, port, inode,
uid, pid, fd and the program to which it belongs. Thanks Larry!
+ With -d or -D and update intervals other than one second, the values
displayed are once more the numbers of IRQ ticks, etc. per interval,
rather than averaged out per second. To get the old behaviour back, use
the new -S option.
+ Bugfixes for Alphas (Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>).
+ Forgot to keep the modules stuff compatible with 2.0.x. Thank you
<soneill@netaxs.com> and Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>.
+ Yet more make_version tweaks in order to survive the advent of egcs.
+ Should survive (not necessarily prettily) impossible values from /proc
when jiffies wraparound has occurred, and, incredibly, still work on SMP
boxen as well. Please report if any bugs remain. Thanks to Jon Lewis
<jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>.
+ New non-numerical entries in /proc/interrupts (NMI, IPI) could cause
confusion (J. Alan Eldridge <alane@wozzle.dialup.access.net>).
+ Only require $TERM if really necessary. This makes `rsh <host> procinfo'
work.
+ Dropped the "0." from the version number. I mean, what's the point?
+ Fixed /proc/interrupts breakage with 2.1.80. For simplicity's sake I've
dropped the '+' indicating a fast irq handler -- it's not there in
2.1.80 anyway.
* New in version 0.11 (1997-05-28):
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+ Memory usage won't break on 2.1.41 and later.
+ The status line should be able to deal better with kernels
compiled with gcc snapshots, i.e. where /proc/version has
something like "(gcc driver version x snapshot y executing gcc
version z)". I don't know if the current code can live with all
variations on this theme though.
+ The occasional bug fix I've forgotten about by now.
* New in version 0.10 (1996-09-15):
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+ Made parsing of /proc/interrupts a bit more flexible (its format
changed a little in late 2.0.x kernels).
+ Now runs if you don't have module support compiled in. Thanks both
to Rob Hooft <Rob.Hooft@EMBL-Heidelberg.de> and Andrew Pam
<avatar@glasswings.com.au> for pointing this one out.
+ Buglet in make_version() fixed.
+ Very silly buglet with IRQ labels fixed (thanks to Harald Anlauf
<anlauf@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>).
* New in version 0.9 (1996-04-28):
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+ Fixed a problem with memory info not getting updated.
+ Fixed a problem with include files for recent versions of libc.
+ Added lsdev, a proglet that combines IRQ, DMA and I/O port
information into one list. (There wasn't room left on the screen
for I/O ports in procinfo itself, hence this perl script.) Note
that this doesn't always work because some drivers use different
labels in different files for the same hardware.
+ The header line should now always fit on one screen line -- run
procinfo in an xterm, resize its width a few time and see the
magic! :-) It defaults to 80 characters if stdout isn't a
terminal.
* New in version 0.8 (1996-01-05):
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+ If your kernel has /proc/cmdline, its contents are printed with
`-a' or `-m'.
+ Support for the cached field in /proc/meminfo.
[NOTE: any mention of kernel patches down below is obsolete for current kernels.]
* New in version 0.7 (1995-11-22):
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+ Thanks to Marcel J.E. Mol <marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl> we now
have the following:
- Disk info is now split in read and write io's, if you run Linux
1.3.43 or later or if you apply pre-1.3.43-disk_io_blk.patch to
the kernel.
- The update interval is now more accurate (wow, one of the TODO
entries is gone:-).
- Fixed usage message (-F).
I added another switch -b to procinfo. Assuming you have applied
the patch mentioned above, the disk read and write figures are for
blocks transferred with -b, or for number of requests without it.
I'd have done it the other way 'round, were it not for backwards
combatability.
+ Both utilities now accept a decimal fraction with the -n option.
* New in version 0.6 (1994-11-01):
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+ If your kernel is 1.1.48 or later, the IRQ display tells you
which DMA channels are used by what.
+ Explanation of page in/out in the manual page corrected. Thanks
to Henry Ware <hware@bronze.coil.com>.
+ Support added for terminals with magic cookies (yes I know it's
1994). See the COOKIE_NOSOSE define in procinfo.c if you're
suffering from this.
+ New option -F followed by a file or device name causes all output
to go to that file or device. Useful if you want to nohup procinfo
with the output going to a tty. Based on a patch by Steven Lembark.
* New in version 0.5 (1994-08-12):
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+ The hostname is displayed in the top right corner (as suggested
by Danny ter Haar). I cut off half of the /proc/version line as
it was getting far too long in recent kernel versions to fit on
one line.
+ Times larger than 24 hours are now displayed as `days hh:mm:ss.ss'
Patch from The Big Cheese <root@delphi.glendon.yorku.ca>.
+ New option `-D' to show totals on memory usage and differences
on the rest. Patch from Steven Lembark <lembark@wrkhors.la.ca.us>.
+ If your kernel is 1.1.43 or later, you also get the names of who
is using the irq channels appearing and disappearing as drivers
grab and release irq's.
* New in version 0.4 (1994-05-21):
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+ The CPU times display was rather buggy. This has been fixed and
improved to display 100th of seconds. Thanks to Rob Janssen for
the patches.
+ The various #define's have gone. procinfo now displays whatever
info is available. Note that info from /proc/net is still
missing, since I don't have the network code compiled into my
kernel.
+ Thanks again to Rob Janssen, procinfo should now run correctly
with older versions of the shared libraries.
+ Modules which are deleted or uninitialized and file systems
which require no device are now marked as such.
* New in version 0.3 (1994-05-08):
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+ Interrupts look better. Idea from Danny ter Haar
<danny@cistron.nl.mugnet.org>.
+ A new option `-d' gives you the differences for memory,
pagein/out, swapin/out, disks, context and interrupts since last
update. Suggested by Rob Janssen <pe1chl@rabo.nl>.
+ Since the advent of /proc/devices in Linux 1.1.3 and of the
modularized SLS 1.0.5 kernel means that not everything will fit on
one 80x25 screen anymore, I have introduced a new option `-m' that
will replace the default screen with one showing all modules (and
devices and filesystems if your kernel is new enough). The modules
list has disappeared from the default display. `-a' gives you
everything.
+ Added percentages for CPU usage. Note that these are accumulated
percentages, as opposed to those given by top(1).
+ To accommodate both those who use 1.0.x kernels and those who use
1.1.x kernels, I have re-arranged the #defines a bit. See below.
* New in version 0.2 (1994-03-30):
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+ The kernel patch broke rpc.rstatd. Fixed. Please make sure you
don't use an old version of procinfo with the new kernel patch or
vice versa.
+ Wildly expanded manual page.
+ A few cosmetic changes.
+ Semi-obsolete interrupt patch.
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As is, the `intr' line in /proc/stat under Linux 1.0 prints the
accumulated number of interrupts that have happened since boot-up
for all 16 irq channels lumped together. You can change this to
display the number of interrupts for each individual irq by applying
the patch in `kernel.patch' to the kernel sources (if necessary) and
then compiling procinfo with -DHAVE_IRQ_ARRAY.
If your kernel is at version 1.0.4 or older, just say
cd /usr/src/linux (or whichever dir contains the kernel sources)
patch < kernel.patch
If you have version 1.0.5, then the patch is already part of the
standard kernel, except that there is a small bug in
linux/fs/proc/array.c at line 101 where it reads
"%u",
but should read
"intr %u",
Change this by hand and recompile and you should be all set.
As said above, the patch that came with procinfo 0.1 broke the
rpc.rstatd daemon which reads the first number form the `intr' line
and assumes that that line contains the total number of interrupts.
In this version of procinfo, the patch merely adds the sixteen extra
numbers *after* the original total number (rather than replacing the
total number *with* the sixteen extra numbers), thus retaining
compatibility with rpc.rstatd.
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