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author | Nathan Scott <nathans@redhat.com> | 2021-06-23 17:44:56 +1000 |
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committer | Nathan Scott <nathans@redhat.com> | 2021-07-07 10:59:36 +1000 |
commit | f0ed0fdafb9ecefc9d103ffb8f5d91bf723518f6 (patch) | |
tree | 8f82bf54c96a07d8efa5c9a8bd2c50865bd6757a /pcp/meters/ipc | |
parent | 865b85eb2d31321e9c37334838fa514ac348d61a (diff) |
Add a new DynamicMeter class for runtime Meter extension
This commit is based on exploratory work by Sohaib Mohamed.
The end goal is two-fold - to support addition of Meters we
build via configuration files for both the PCP platform and
for scripts ( https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/issues/526 )
Here, we focus on generic code and the PCP support. A new
class DynamicMeter is introduced - it uses the special case
'param' field handling that previously was used only by the
CPUMeter, such that every runtime-configured Meter is given
a unique identifier. Unlike with the CPUMeter this is used
internally only. When reading/writing to htoprc instead of
CPU(N) - where N is an integer param (CPU number) - we use
the string name for each meter. For example, if we have a
configuration for a DynamicMeter for some Redis metrics, we
might read and write "Dynamic(redis)". This identifier is
subsequently matched (back) up to the configuration file so
we're able to re-create arbitrary user configurations.
The PCP platform configuration file format is fairly simple.
We expand configs from several directories, including the
users homedir alongside htoprc (below htop/meters/) and also
/etc/pcp/htop/meters. The format will be described via a
new pcp-htop(5) man page, but its basically ini-style and
each Meter has one or more metric expressions associated, as
well as specifications for labels, color and so on via a dot
separated notation for individual metrics within the Meter.
A few initial sample configuration files are provided below
./pcp/meters that give the general idea. The PCP "derived"
metric specification - see pmRegisterDerived(3) - is used
as the syntax for specifying metrics in PCP DynamicMeters.
Diffstat (limited to 'pcp/meters/ipc')
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diff --git a/pcp/meters/ipc b/pcp/meters/ipc new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4162f392 --- /dev/null +++ b/pcp/meters/ipc @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# +# pcp-htop(1) configuration file - see pcp-htop(5) +# + +[ipc] +caption = SysV IPC +description = SysV IPC counts +msg.metric = ipc.msg.used_queues +msg.color = blue +sem.metric = ipc.sem.used_sem +sem.color = green +shm.metric = ipc.shm.used_ids +shm.color = cyan |