This is tclbsd, a Tcl C extension written to provide Tcl bindings to various BSD UNIX system calls and library routines.
tclbsd provides interfaces to get the system load average (getloadavg), get and set hard and soft resource limits (rlimit), obtain the resource usage for the current process or its children (rusage), set the process title (setproctitle), get information about mounted filesystems (statfs and getfsstat), log to the system log (syslog), abort the process (abort), and obtain system clock counts (cptime).
Get it on github: http://github.com/flightaware/tclbsd
You can sometimes find tclbsd on IRC in the #tcl channel on the Freenode network
or you can file issues with github here.
You can also clone the project with Git by running:
$ git clone git://github.com/flightaware/tclbsd
package require BSD
Get load average. Three elements are returned, each representing the average number of processes is the system queue averaged over one, five and fifteen minutes, respectively.
lassign [::bsd::getloadavg] load1 load5 load15
Get resource usage. A list of key-value pairs is returned.
array set rusage [::bsd::rusage]
parray rusage
...yielding...
rusage(fileSystemInputs) = 0 rusage(fileSystemOutputs) = 0 rusage(involuntaryContextSwitches) = 1 rusage(ipcMessagesReceived) = 0 rusage(ipcMessagesSent) = 0 rusage(maxResidentSetSizeKbytes) = 4116 rusage(nSignalsDelivered) = 0 rusage(nTimesSwapped) = 0 rusage(pageFaults) = 0 rusage(pageReclaims) = 546 rusage(sharedTextKbyteSeconds) = 0.25 rusage(stackKbyteSeconds) = 8.0 rusage(systemTimeUsed) = 0.01409 rusage(unsharedDataKbyteSeconds) = 64.0 rusage(userTimeUsed) = 0.042272 rusage(voluntaryContextSwitches) = 89Set process title. Pass an argument, pretty simple.
::bsd::setproctitle "this will show up in ps but usually not top"yields something like
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 20338 2 IWs 0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/bash 16678 4 Is+ 0:00.12 -bash (bash) 70797 8 I+ 0:00.95 vim index.html 71288 10 S+ 0:00.06 this will show up in ps but usually not top (tclsh8.5) 71431 10 R+ 0:00.00 /bin/ps 98222 17- I 28:21.37 peekaboostatfs returns information about a mounted filesystem...
array set statfs [::bsd::statfs /usr] parray statfsyielding
statfs(availableFreeBlocks) = 248899883 statfs(fileSystemType) = ufs statfs(flags) = softUpdates filesystemStoredLocally statfs(freeBlocks) = 280057534 statfs(freeFileNodes) = 96751664 statfs(fundamentalFileSystemBlockSize) = 2048 statfs(mountPoint) = /usr statfs(mountedFileSystem) = /dev/mfid0s1f statfs(totalDataBlocks) = 389470645 statfs(totalFileNodes) = 100708350
Likewise, ::bsd::getfsstat returns a list of lists for all mounted filesystems. Note you can past getfsstat a -wait or -nowait argument -- check the manpage for details.
The rlimit, syslog, abort and cptime commands are covered in the manpage.
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