proc

Proc

Expose system state via the /proc file system.

Known limitations

This was written for us to use at Voxer on Joyent. It has not been tested outside of SmartOS and I have no expectations that this should run on anything but some flavor of Solaris.

usage

Expose /proc/self/usage

Usage usage (Oh, so meta.)

var proc = require('proc');

proc.usage(function (err, usage_obj) {
    console.dir(usage_obj);
});

Underlying data structure

/*
 * Resource usage.
 */
typedef struct prusage {
	id_t		pr_lwpid;	/* lwp id.  0: process or defunct */
	int		    pr_count;	/* number of contributing lwps */
	timestruc_t	pr_tstamp;	/* current time stamp */
	timestruc_t	pr_create;	/* process/lwp creation time stamp */
	timestruc_t	pr_term;	/* process/lwp termination time stamp */
	timestruc_t	pr_rtime;	/* total lwp real (elapsed) time */
	timestruc_t	pr_utime;	/* user level cpu time */
	timestruc_t	pr_stime;	/* system call cpu time */
	timestruc_t	pr_ttime;	/* other system trap cpu time */
	timestruc_t	pr_tftime;	/* text page fault sleep time */
	timestruc_t	pr_dftime;	/* data page fault sleep time */
	timestruc_t	pr_kftime;	/* kernel page fault sleep time */
	timestruc_t	pr_ltime;	/* user lock wait sleep time */
	timestruc_t	pr_slptime;	/* all other sleep time */
	timestruc_t	pr_wtime;	/* wait-cpu (latency) time */
	timestruc_t	pr_stoptime;	/* stopped time */
	timestruc_t	filltime[6];	/* filler for future expansion */
	ulong_t		pr_minf;	/* minor page faults */
	ulong_t		pr_majf;	/* major page faults */
	ulong_t		pr_nswap;	/* swaps */
	ulong_t		pr_inblk;	/* input blocks */
	ulong_t		pr_oublk;	/* output blocks */
	ulong_t		pr_msnd;	/* messages sent */
	ulong_t		pr_mrcv;	/* messages received */
	ulong_t		pr_sigs;	/* signals received */
	ulong_t		pr_vctx;	/* voluntary context switches */
	ulong_t		pr_ictx;	/* involuntary context switches */
	ulong_t		pr_sysc;	/* system calls */
	ulong_t		pr_ioch;	/* chars read and written */
	ulong_t		filler[10];	/* filler for future expansion */
} prusage_t;

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Daniel D. Shaw [e-mail]

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