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PCP-ATOPRC(5)              File Formats Manual             PCP-ATOPRC(5)

NAME         top

       pcp-atoprc - pcp-atop and pcp-atopsar resource file

DESCRIPTION         top

       This manual page documents the resource file of the pcp-atop and
       pcp-atopsar commands.  These commands can be used to monitor the
       system and process load on a system.

       The pcp-atoprc file contains the default settings. These settings
       are read during startup, first from the system-wide rcfile
       /etc/atoprc and after that from the user-specific rcfile
       ~/.atoprc (so system-wide settings can be overruled by an
       individual user).  The options in both rcfiles are identical.

OPTIONS         top

       The rcfile contains keyword-value pairs, one on every line (blank
       lines and lines starting with a #-sign are ignored).
       The following keywords can be specified:

       flags
           A list of default flags for pcp-atop can be defined here. The
           flags which are allowed are 'B', 'H', 'g', 'm', 'd', 'n',
           'u', 'p', 's', 'c', 'v', 'C', 'M', 'D', 'N', 'A', 'a', 'y',
           'f', 'F', 'G', 'R', '1', 'e', 'E' and 'x'.

       interval
           The default interval value in seconds.

       linelen
           The length of a screen line when sending output to a file or
           pipe (default 80).

       username
           The default regular expression for the users for which active
           processes will be shown.

       procname
           The default regular expression for the process names to be
           shown.

       maxlinecpu
           The maximum number of active CPUs that will be shown.

       maxlinegpu
           The maximum number of active GPUs that will be shown.

       maxlinelvm
           The maximum number of active logical volumes that will be
           shown.

       maxlinemdd
           The maximum number of active multiple devices that will be
           shown.

       maxlinedisk
           The maximum number of active disks that will be shown.

       maxlinenfsm
           The maximum number of NFS mounts that will be shown on an NFS
           client.

       maxlineintf
           The maximum number of active network interfaces that will be
           shown.

       maxlinecont
           The maximum number of active containers that will be shown.

       cpucritperc
           The busy percentage considered critical for a processor (see
           section COLORS in the man-page of the pcp-atop command).
           This percentage is used to determine a weighted percentage
           for line coloring and sorting of active processes in text
           mode.  When this value is zero, no line coloring or automatic
           sorting is performed for this resource.

       dskcritperc
           The busy percentage considered critical for a disk (see
           section COLORS in the man-page of the pcp-atop command).
           This percentage is used to determine a weighted percentage
           for line coloring and sorting of active processes in text
           mode.  When this value is zero, no line coloring or automatic
           sorting is performed for this resource.

       netcritperc
           The busy percentage considered critical for a network
           interface (see section COLORS in the man-page of the pcp-atop
           command).  This percentage is used to determine a weighted
           percentage for line coloring and sorting of active processes
           in text mode.  When this value is zero, no line coloring or
           automatic sorting is performed for this resource.

       memcritperc
           The percentage considered critical for memory utilization
           (see section COLORS in the man-page of the pcp-atop command).
           This percentage is used to determine a weighted percentage
           for line coloring and sorting of active processes in text
           mode.  When this value is zero, no line coloring or automatic
           sorting is performed for this resource.

       swpcritperc
           The occupation percentage considered critical for swap space
           (see section COLORS in the man-page of the pcp-atop command).
           This percentage is used to determine a weighted percentage
           for line coloring and sorting of active processes.  When this
           value is zero, no line coloring or automatic sorting is
           performed for this resource.

       swoutcritsec
           The number of pages swapped out per second considered
           critical for for memory utilization (see section COLORS in
           the man-page of the pcp-atop command).  This threshold is
           used in combination with 'memcritperc' to determine a
           weighted percentage for line coloring and sorting of active
           processes.  When this value is zero, no line coloring or
           automatic sorting is performed for this resource.

       almostcrit
           A percentage of the critical percentage to determine if the
           resource is almost critical (see section COLORS in the man-
           page of the pcp-atop command).  When this value is zero, no
           line coloring for `almost critical' is performed.

       cpubarwidth
           Number of columns used per bar in the processor bar graph.
           The default value is 0 which means that the bar width will be
           scaled automatically (the wider the terminal, the more
           columns per bar upto a maximum of three).  With the value 1,
           2 or 3 the number of bars can be statically pinned to that
           number of columns, with one column of white space in between
           the bars.

       colorinfo
           Definition of color name for information messages (default:
           green) in text mode.
           Allowed colors are: red green yellow blue magenta cyan black
           white.

       colorthread
           Definition of color name for thread-specific lines when using
           the 'y' option (default: yellow).
           Allowed colors are: red green yellow blue magenta cyan black
           white.

       coloralmost
           Definition of color name for almost critical resources
           (default: cyan) in text mode.
           Allowed colors are: red green yellow blue magenta cyan black
           white.

       colorcritical
           Definition of color name for critical resources (default:
           red) in text mode.
           Allowed colors are: red green yellow blue magenta cyan black
           white.

       pcp-atopsarflags
           A list of default flags for pcp-atopsar can be defined here.
           The flags that are allowed are 'S', 'x', 'C', 'M', 'H', 'a',
           'A' and the flags to select one or more specific reports.

       An example of the /etc/atoprc or ~/.atoprc file:

               flags         Aaf
               interval      5
               username
               procname
               maxlinecpu    4
               maxlinedisk   10
               maxlineintf   5
               cpucritperc   80
               almostcrit    90
               pcp-atopsarflags  CMH
               ownprocline   PID:50 VGROW:40 RGROW:45 COMMAND-LINE:50
               ownpagline    PAGSCAN:3 BLANKBOX:0 PAGSWIN:3 PAGSWOUT:7

       The keywords 'ownprocline' and 'ownpagline' are explained in the
       subsequent section.

OWN DEFINITION OF OUTPUT LINE         top

       Via the rcfile it is possible to define the layout of the output
       lines yourself, i.e. you can define the layout of one line with
       process information with the keyword 'ownprocline' (to be
       selected with the key 'o' or the flag -o) and you can redefine
       all lines with system information.

       The layout of an output-line can be defined as follows (notice
       that this should be specified as one line in the rcfile):

          keyword   <columnid>:<prio> [<columnid>:<prio> ...]

       The columnid is the symbolic name of a column that should shown
       at this position in the output line.
       The prio is a positive integer value that determines which
       columns have precedence whenever not all specified columns fit
       into the current screen-width.  The higher value, the higher
       priority.
       The column-specifications should be separated by a space. The
       order in which columns have been specified is the order in which
       they will be shown, with respect to their priority (columns that
       do not fit, will be dropped dynamically).

       A special columnid for system lines is 'BLANKBOX'. This indicates
       that an empty column is required at this position. Also this
       special columnid is followed by a priority (usually low).

       The following definition can be specified for process
       information:

       ownprocline
           The columnids are the names of the columns that are shown in
           the normal output of the process-related lines that are shown
           by pcp-atop such as 'PID', 'CMD', 'S', ....  The only
           exception is the special columnid 'SORTITEM' that is used to
           show one of the columns CPU%/DSK%/MEM%/NET%, depending on the
           chosen sort-criterium.
           An example of a user-defined process line:

               ownprocline   PID:20 PPID:10 SYSCPU:15 USRCPU:15 VGROW:14
               VSIZE:12 RGROW:14 RSIZE:12 ST:8 EXC:7 S:11 SORTITEM:18
               CMD:20

       The following definitions are used internally by pcp-atop as the
       default system lines (you can redefine each of them in the rcfile
       as one line):

       ownsysprcline
           Redefinition of line labeled with 'PRC':

               ownsysprcline   PRCSYS:8 PRCUSER:8 BLANKBOX:0 PRCNPROC:7
               PRCNZOMBIE:5 PRCCLONES:4 BLANKBOX:0 PRCNNEXIT:6

       ownallcpuline
           Redefinition of line labeled with 'CPU' for total CPU-
           utilization:

               ownallcpuline   CPUSYS:8 CPUUSER:7 CPUIRQ:4 BLANKBOX:0
               CPUIDLE:5 CPUWAIT:6 BLANKBOX:0 CPUSTEAL:1 CPUGUEST:3

       ownonecpuline
           Redefinition of line labeled with 'CPU' for utilization of
           one CPU:

               ownonecpuline   CPUISYS:8 CPUIUSER:7 CPUIIRQ:4 BLANKBOX:0
               CPUIIDLE:5 CPUIWAIT:6 BLANKBOX:0 CPUISTEAL:1 CPUIGUEST:3

       owncplline
           Redefinition of line labeled with 'CPL':

               owncplline   CPLAVG1:4 CPLAVG5:3 CPLAVG15:2 BLANKBOX:0
               CPLCSW:6 CPLINTR:5 BLANKBOX:0 CPLNUMCPU:1

       ownmemline
           Redefinition of line labeled with 'MEM':

               ownmemline   MEMTOT:2 MEMFREE:5 MEMCACHE:3 MEMDIRTY:1
               MEMBUFFER:3 MEMSLAB:3 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0
               BLANKBOX:0

       ownswpline
           Redefinition of line labeled with 'SWP':

               ownswpline   SWPTOT:3 SWPFREE:4 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0
               BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0
               SWPCOMMITTED:5 SWPCOMMITLIM:6

       ownpagline
           Redefinition of line labeled with 'PAG':

               ownpagline   PAGSCAN:3 PAGSTALL:1 BLANKBOX:0 PAGSWIN:4
               PAGSWOUT:3

       owndskline
           Redefinition of lines labeled with 'LVM', 'MDD' and 'DSK':

               owndskline   DSKNAME:8 DSKBUSY:7 DSKNREAD:6 DSKNWRITE:6
               DSKKBPERRD:4 DSKKBPERWR:4 DSKMBPERSECRD:5 DSKMBPERSECWR:5
               DSKAVQUEUE:1 DSKAVIO:5

       ownnettrline
           Redefinition of line labeled with 'NET' for transport:

               ownnettrline   NETTRANSPORT:9 NETTCPI:8 NETTCPO:8
               NETUDPI:8 NETUDPO:8 NETTCPACTOPEN:6 NETTCPPASVOPEN:5
               NETTCPRETRANS:4 NETTCPINERR:3 NETTCPORESET:20
               NETUDPNOPORT:1 NETUDPINERR:3

       ownnetnetline
           Redefinition of line labeled with 'NET' for network:

               ownnetnetline   NETNETWORK:5 NETIPI:4 NETIPO:4 NETIPFRW:4
               NETIPDELIV:4 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0 NETICMPIN:1
               NETICMPOUT:1

       ownnetifline
           Redefinition of line labeled with 'NET' for interfaces:

               ownnetifline   NETNAME:8 NETPCKI:7 NETPCKO:7 NETSPEEDIN:6
               NETSPEEDOUT:6 NETCOLLIS:3 NETMULTICASTIN:2 NETRCVERR:5
               NETSNDERR:5 NETRCVDROP:4 NETSNDDROP:4

       The lines above are shown in the order as shown by pcp-atop in
       combination with the -f flag (in a very wide window you should be
       able to see all of the columns).

SEE ALSO         top

       pcp(1), pcp-atop(1), pcp-atopsar(1) and PCPIntro(1).

COLOPHON         top

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