CHAPTER 24 Useful Utilities

24.7 ProCtool

ProCtool is a process monitoring and management tool developed by a couple of Sun engineers, but not officially supported by Sun (Walter Nielsen, walter.nielsen@west.sun.com, and Morgan Herrington, morgan.herrington@west.sun.com). There are versions for Solaris 2.2 and above. It provides the functionality of ps, top, iostat, and much more in a graphical presentation under Open Look. It will continually update the display by sampling the kernel tables. Among it's many features are: report on all active processes (sorted by choice of characteristic); turn off or on CPUs on an MP box; kill or renice selected processes; send signals to a set of processes; report on VM and I/O usage, and paging rate and memory map, etc.; and graph system characteristics. ProCtool can be obtained via anonymous ftp from sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/sun-info/mde, or locally from www-wks.acs.ohio-state.edu in /pub/proctool.

The desired characteristics for display are setable with the View pop-up window under Viewpoint and include the following options:

ADDR - Address of process
CLS - Scheduling Class
CMD - Command
CMDLINE - Command and Arguments
CPU - CPU 'tick' count
CPU# - Processor Number
CPU% - Percentage of CPU Utilization
CS/S - Context Switches/Sec
CTIME - Children user+sys CPU time
FLAGS - Process flags
GID - Group ID
HEAP - Heap Size (KBytes)
IO/S - Characters read+written/Sec
LWP - LWP count
MPF/S - Minor Page Faults/Sec
MSGS/S - Messages sent+received/Sec
NICE - Nice value
PF/S - Major Page Faults/Sec
PGID - Process Group ID
PID - Process ID
PPID - Parent Process ID
PRI - Priority
RSS - Resident Set Size (KBytes)
SDATE - Start Date
SID - Session ID
SIZE - SIZE (KBytes)
ST - Process state
STACK - Stack Size (KBytes)
STIME - Start Time
TIME - user+sys CPU time
TTY - Controlling Terminal
UID - User ID
USER - Username
WCHAN - Address process is waiting on

The Properties/System Properties pop-up window is:

Unix System Administration - 8 AUG 1996

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