Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME pcsc-spy – A PC/SC spy command SYNOPSIS pcsc-spy [-n|–nocolor] [-d|–diffable] [-h|–help] [fifo_filename] DESCRIPTION pcsc-spy displays PC/SC calls of an application. It must be used with the libpcscspy.so library. To be able to spy the PC/SC layer, the application flow must be modified so that all PC/SC calls are redirected. Two options are available: –…
NAME pcretest – a program for testing Perl-compatible regular expressions. SYNOPSIS pcretest [options] [input file [output file]] pcretest was written as a test program for the PCRE regular expression library itself, but it can also be used for experimenting with regular expressions. This document describes the features of the test program; for details of the…
NAME pcregrep – a grep with Perl-compatible regular expressions. SYNOPSIS pcregrep [options] [long options] [pattern] [path1 path2 …] DESCRIPTION pcregrep searches files for character patterns, in the same way as other grep commands do, but it uses the PCRE regular expression library to support patterns that are compatible with the regular expressions of Perl 5….
NAME pcre2test – a program for testing Perl-compatible regular expressions. SYNOPSIS pcre2test [options] [input file [output file]] pcre2test is a test program for the PCRE2 regular expression libraries, but it can also be used for experimenting with regular expressions. This document describes the features of the test program; for details of the regular expressions themselves,…
NAME pcre2grep – a grep with Perl-compatible regular expressions. SYNOPSIS pcre2grep [options] [long options] [pattern] [path1 path2 …] DESCRIPTION pcre2grep searches files for character patterns, in the same way as other grep commands do, but it uses the PCRE2 regular expression library to support patterns that are compatible with the regular expressions of Perl 5….
NAME pcre2-config – program to return PCRE2 configuration SYNOPSIS pcre2 – config[–prefix][–exec – prefix][–version] [–libs8][–libs16][–libs32][–libs – posix] [–cflags][–cflags – posix] DESCRIPTION pcre2-config returns the configuration of the installed PCRE2 libraries and the options required to compile a program to use them. Some of the options apply only to the 8-bit, or 16-bit, or 32-bit libraries,…
NAME pcre-config – program to return PCRE configuration SYNOPSIS pcre-config [–prefix] [–exec-prefix] [–version] [–libs] [–libs-posix] [–cflags] [–cflags-posix] DESCRIPTION pcre-config returns the configuration of the installed PCRE libraries: the options required to compile a program to use them. OPTIONS –prefix Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture independent files (e.g. /usr) to…
NAME pcp2graphite – pcp-to-graphite metrics exporter SYNOPSIS pcp2graphite [-h hostspec] [-a archive] [-L] [-O origin] [-T finish] [-s samples] [-t delta] [-g graphitehost] [-p pickleport] [-P textport] [-r pickleprotocol] [-u units] [-m prefix] metricname … DESCRIPTION pcp2graphite is a PCP metric exporter. It relays hierarchies of the pmns(5) to a designated Graphite (Carbon/Whisper) database by…
NAME pcp, pcp-summary – run a command or summarize an installation SYNOPSIS pcp [pcp options…] pcp-command [command options…] pcp [-P] [-a archive] [-h host] [-n pmnsfile] DESCRIPTION The pcp command is used in one of two modes. By default, it summarizes the Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) installation on the local host. This mode can also be…
NAME pcp-vmstat, pmstat – high-level system performance overview SYNOPSIS pcp [pcp options] vmstat [interval [samples]] pmstat [-gLlPxz] [-A align] [-a archive] [-h host] [-H file] [-n pmnsfile] [-O offset] [-p port] [-S starttime] [-s samples] [-T endtime] [-t interval] [-Z timezone] DESCRIPTION pmstat provides a one line summary of system performance every interval unit of…
NAME pcp-verify – verify aspects of a PCP installation SYNOPSIS pcp [pcp options] verify [-c/–containers] [-s/–secure] [-v/–verbose] DESCRIPTION pcp-verify inspects various aspects of a PCP collector installation and reports on whether it is configured correctly for certain modes of operation. By default, pcp-verify checks that PMCD is running and no agents are in a failed…
NAME pcp-uptime – tell how long the system has been running SYNOPSIS pcp [pcp options] uptime [-V/[–version] DESCRIPTION pcp-uptime gives a one line display of the following information. The current time, how long the system has been running, how many users are currently logged on, and the system load averages for the past 1, 5,…
NAME pcp-shping – report on shell service availability and response SYNOPSIS pcp shping [-cl] tag … DESCRIPTION pcp-shping samples and reports on the shell-ping service metrics exported by the pmdashping(1) agent. The default report from pcp-shping shows two columns for each service tag, the first showing service status (zero indicating success) and the second service…
NAME pcp-python – run a python script using a preferred python variant SYNOPSIS pcp python [SCRIPT [ARG]…] DESCRIPTION pcp-python has been replaced by pmpython(1) which is preferred, however pcp-python is still installed to provided backwards compatibility. pcp-python provides a way to run python scripts using a customisable python binary, rather than embedding any particular version…
NAME pcp-numastat – report on NUMA memory allocation SYNOPSIS pcp [pcp options] numastat [-V] DESCRIPTION pcp-numastat displays NUMA allocation statistics from the kernel memory allocator. Each process has NUMA policies that specify on which node pages are allocated. The performance counters in the kernel track on which nodes memory is allocated and these values are…
NAME pcp-ipcs – provide information on IPC facilities SYNOPSIS pcp-ipcs [resource-option] [output-format] pcp-ipcs [resource-option] -i id DESCRIPTION pcp-ipcs provides information on the inter-process communication facilities for which the calling process has read access. OPTIONS -i, –id id Print details only on the resource identified by id. -h, –help Display a help text and exit. -V,…
NAME pmiostat, pcp-iostat – performance metrics i/o statistics tool SYNOPSIS pcp iostat [-A align –align=TIME] [-a archive –archive=FILE] [-G method –aggregate=method] [-h host –host=HOST] [-O offset –origin=TIME] [-S starttime –start=TIME] [-s samples –samples=N] [-T endtime –finish=TIME] [-t interval –interval=DELTA] [-P precision –precision=N] [-R pattern –regex=pattern] [-u –no-interpolate] [-Z timezone –timezone=TZ] [-z –hostzone] [-? –help] [-x…
NAME pcp-free – report on free and used memory in the system SYNOPSIS pcp [pcp options] free [-bkmgoltV] [-c count] [-s interval] DESCRIPTION pcp-free gives a summary display of the total amount of free and used physical memory and swap in the system, as well as the caches used by the kernel. When invoked via…
NAME pcp-dmcache, pcp-lvmcache – report on logical storage device caches SYNOPSIS pcp [pcp options] dmcache [-i/–iops] [-R/–repeat N] [device …] DESCRIPTION pcp-dmcache reports on the activity of any configured Device Mapper Cache targets. The reported information includes device IOPs, cache and metadata device utilization, as well as hit and miss rates and ratios for both…
NAME pmcollectl, pcp-collectl – collect data that describes the current system status SYNOPSIS pcp collectl [-f file | -p file …] [options …] DESCRIPTION pcp-collectl is a system-level performance monitoring utility that records or displays specific operating system data for one or more sets of subsystems. Any of the subsystems (such as CPU, Disks, Memory…