getting detailed process information on Freebsd

Freebsd procstat utility gives detailed information about all of the processes on the system or just for a given process id number, such as virtual memory mapping, thread stack, command line arguments and open files.

Running procstat with "-a" argument prints information like pid,pid,login, process name, wchan (which event the process waiting) of all processes on the system.

# procstat -a



Procstat "-c" option shows you the command line arguments of a process and "-f" option shows opened files by given process.Following sample output shows the command line arguments and the files currently opened with their permissions by vi process.



You can access virtual memory mapping information a process with "-v" option. Following sample shows vi process virtual memory mappings.



Finally, "-k" option shows kernel threads stacks details of given process.

watching interrupt usage on Freebsd

You can easily see how many interrupts taken by each device on Linux by simply looking in /proc/interrupts file. Freebsd has no such information in procfs. But you can access the same information by using "vmstat -i" command in Freebsd.But you can't see which cpu handling which irq as shown by Linux. Following is a sample output of "vmstat -i" command from a Freebsd machine.



You can write a simple c shell script to watch interrupt usage like this.

Vmstat uses sysctl interface to gather interrupt usage information by using hw.intrnames and hw.intrcnt oid names. As names suggest intrnames holds all interrupt names and intrcnt holds their irq counts since system startup for each interrupt.