Plugin:Processes

Processes plugin
Type:	read
Callbacks:	config, init, read
Status:	supported
First version:	3.2
Copyright:	2005 Lyonel Vincent 2006–2008 Florian octo Forster 2008 Oleg King 2009 Sebastian Harl 2009 Andrés J. Díaz 2009 Manuel Sanmartin 2010 Clément Stenac
License:	GPLv2+
Manpage:	collectd.conf(5)
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The Processes plugin collects the number of processes, grouped by their state (e. g. running, sleeping, zombies, etc.). In addition to that, it can select detailed statistics about selected processes, grouped by name.

If processes are selected (the collectd.conf(5) manpage can tell you how) the following information is gathered. All this information is aggregated by the process name.

• Its Resident Segment Size (RSS; basically the amount of physical memory currently used by these processes)
• Used user- and system-time (the "CPU usage")
• The number of processes by that name
• The number of threads (summed up over all the processes)
• The number of open files (Linux only)
  (Since version 5.8)
• The number of memory mapped files (Linux only)
  (Since version 5.8)
• The rate of context switches (Linux only)
• The rate of major and minor page faults.
• Rough I/O-numbers (bytes written and read due to syscalls by the process).
  (Since version 4.9)

Example Graphs

Dependencies

• Linux, Solaris
  • /proc-file system
• FreeBSD, Mac OS X
  • libkvm
• AIX
  • <procinfo.h>