FR: option to consolidate processes of same program when sorting by cpu/mem about ttop HOT 13 CLOSED

do you mean to group them by ?name? and sum values?

yes. that's what i like about ps_mem and i always have to leave htop to use ps_mem because looking at a bunch of separate forked processes bouncing around is fairly useless when you want to know how much ram a program is using altogether, which i think is a more common use case than someone needing to see what one particular fork is doing right now. [edited to avoid misintepretation]

Same thing with CPU usage. I want to know how much a program is using, not try and guess from forks bouncing around. I understand it wouldn't be 100% accurate/real time, but that's still better than chasing the forks. I don't know how your historical data feature works yet, but there may be a "tie in" with this feature there as well.

I bet ttop would be the only sys mon that had this feature, and it might drive adoption and create exposure for your app and nim.

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I just tried it. That's pretty cool!

It looks like some stuff is not being grouped fully. I'm guessing Isolated Web Co(tent) should be part of Firefox. I have one called WebExtensions and Web Content. Maybe those goes with Brave browser? I also have Privileged Cont, Utility Process, RDD Process, and Socket Process, but i'm not sure what they represent or should go with.

Good start! It's already useful as it is.

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https://github.com/inv2004/ttop/releases/v1.4.3

I found that parsing <PID>/exe symling like ps_mem do is not very stable and decided to try just first argument from cmdline. And looks like it works a bit better for me

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Yeah, i just tried it too. This is a great feature! closing. Thanks a lot. Will likely be using ttop as my main sys mon now.

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My gajim is in a strange state right now. copr repo, signing keys, etc. let me make sure that's squared away before you spend any time on this. I'll post back.

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looks good to me! gajim is shown as: /usr/bin/python3 -sP /usr/bin/gajim
I'll let you close the issue when you decide to. Thanks!

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@ITwrx
I think it is correct. It is grouped by process name, but the tui contains cmdline if it is available

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Reopen if you find smth I can add to the issue

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Do I understand correct:

ps_mem shows:
13.9 MiB + 3.7 MiB = 17.6 MiB fish (5)

ttop with filter "fish"

 S   7500 u           10.5 MB   0.1   0.0            0:20:40  /usr/sbin/fish
 S     10 u           10.5 MB   0.1   0.0            0:57:40  -fish
 S   1118 u            8.7 MB   0.1   0.0            0:57:00  /usr/sbin/fish
 S  13293 u            8.3 MB   0.1   0.0            0:10:26  -fish
 S    673 u            7.0 MB   0.1   0.0            0:57:09  /usr/sbin/fish -c sh -c '"$VSCODE_WSL_EXT_LOCATION/s.

do you mean to group them by ?name? and sum values? I think it is interesting idea - not a lot of reasons to see 100500 forks of the same process.

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@ITwrx first try to group processes was added into https://github.com/inv2004/ttop/releases/tag/v1.4.2
You can try it by g button. It does not match ps_mem 100% and I have to understand it a bit more

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it looks like gajim is shown simply as /usr/bin/python3. I'm not seeing anything else that is reported in such a generic way, but that's probably the only python application i have running right now.

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well, the copr repo issues are irrelevant as only the omemo stuff is from the copr repo. The gajim package itself is from the official repos. I also confirmed, by closing and reopening gajim, that it is gajim that is shown as /usr/bin/python3.

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@ITwrx
I just released v1.4.5 which is mainly about fixing all the group stuff. I found that ps_mem uses root perms to find exe link which is not compatible with ttop (which does not need root).

I added logic to group by first cmdline file (for firefox) if it is possible and use process name if not

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