The pressure stall information (PSI) metrics provide useful information
on delays caused by waiting for CPU, IO and memory. Particularly on busy
servers it can provide a quick overview of what's "slowing things down".
This feature is supported on Linux >= 4.20.
The interface is documented here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/Documentation/accounting/psi.txt
These links provide rationale:
https://lwn.net/Articles/759781/https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/psi/
The following metrics are added, corresponding to the currently exposed
lines (see `head /proc/pressure/*`):
- PressureStallCPUSome
- PressureStallIOSome
- PressureStallIOFull
- PressureStallMemorySome
- PressureStallMemoryFull
The color scheme is the same as that used for Load Average, however I
gave it separate entries just in case someone wants to change them
specifically.
Tested on 4.20.7-arch1-1-ARCH, on the linux platform.
Also tested that other platforms still compile (changed configure to use
the unsupported platform).
Closes#879.
This is/was necessary only on macOS, because you needed root in order
to read the process list. This was never necessary on Linux, and
it also raises security concerns, so now it needs to be enabled
explicitly at build time.
When user threads are hidden, process now shows the
sum of processor usage for all processors. When user
threads are displayed, each thread shows its own
processor usage, including the root thread.
(thanks to Bert Wesarg for the report)
Also, add option to display thread colors differently.