gecko/python/psutil/TODO
Gregory Szorc c3c3fed10d Bug 930808 - Upgrade to psutil 2.1.3; r=glandium
psutil 2.1.3 is replacing psutil 1.0.1. There are numerous bug fixes and
feature enhancements in psutil worth obtaining.

Source code was obtained from
https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/psutil/psutil-2.1.3.tar.gz and
uncompressed into python/psutil without modification except for the
removal of the egg-info directory and the .travis.yml file.

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TODO
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A collection of ideas and notes about stuff to implement in future versions.
"#NNN" occurrences refer to bug tracker issues at:
https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/issues
HIGHER PRIORITY
===============
* #250: net ifaces speed.
* #376: ifconfig functionalities aka psutil.net_ifaces (could be merged
with #250)
* OpenBSD support.
* #371: CPU temperature (apparently OSX and Linux only; on Linux it requires
lm-sensors lib).
* #269: expose network ifaces RX/TW queues.
* Process.threads(): thread names
* Asynchronous psutil.Popen (see http://bugs.python.org/issue1191964)
LOWER PRIORITY
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* #355: Android support.
* #276: GNU/Hurd support.
* #429: NetBSD support.
* DragonFlyBSD support?
* AIX support?
* examples/pidof.py (same as 'pidof' cli tool)
* examples/pstree.py (same as 'pstree' cli tool)
* threads() should also return thread names in order to implement it
* examples/taskmgr-gui.py (using tk).
* system-wide number of open file descriptors:
* https://jira.hyperic.com/browse/SIGAR-30
* http://www.netadmintools.com/part295.html
* Number of system threads.
* Windows: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms684824(v=vs.85).aspx
* #357: what CPU a process is on.
* thread names:
* https://code.google.com/p/plcrashreporter/issues/detail?id=65
* Doc / wiki which compares similarities between UNIX cli tools and psutil.
Example:
df -a -> psutil.disk_partitions
lsof -> psutil.Process.open_files() and psutil.Process.open_connections()
killall-> (actual script)
tty -> psutil.Process.terminal()
who -> psutil.users()
DEBATABLE
=========
* support wheels? http://pythonwheels.com/
* advanced cmdline interface exposing the whole API and providing different
kind of outputs (e.g. pprinted, colorized, json).
* [Linux]: process cgroups (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups). They look
similar to prlimit() in terms of functionality but uglier (they should allow
limiting per-process network IO resources though, which is great). Needs
further reading.
* Should we expose OS constants (psutil.WINDOWS, psutil.OSX etc.)?
* Python 3.3. exposed different sched.h functions:
http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.3.html#os
http://bugs.python.org/issue12655
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/os.html#interface-to-the-scheduler
It might be worth to take a look and figure out whether we can include some
of those in psutil.
Also, we can probably reimplement wait_pid() on POSIX which is currently
implemented as a busy-loop.
* Certain systems (XXX figure out which ones exactly) provide CPU times about
process children. On those systems Process.cpu_times() might return
a (user, system, user_children, system_children) ntuple.
Also, os.times() provides 'elapsed' times as well.
* Enrich exception classes hierarchy on Python >= 3.3 / post PEP-3151 so that:
- NoSuchProcess inherits from ProcessLookupError
- AccessDenied inherits from PermissionError
- TimeoutExpired inherits from TimeoutError (debatable)
See: http://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#os-exceptions
* Process.threads() might grow an extra "id" parameter so that it can be
used as such:
>>> p = psutil.Process(os.getpid())
>>> p.threads(id=psutil.current_thread_id())
thread(id=2539, user_time=0.03, system_time=0.02)
>>>
Note: this leads to questions such as "should we have a custom NoSuchThread
exception? Also see issue #418.
Note #2: this would work with os.getpid() only.
psutil.current_thread_id() might be desirable as per issue #418 though.
* should psutil.TimeoutExpired exception have a 'msg' kwarg similar to
NoSuchProcess and AccessDenied? Not that we need it, but currently we
cannot raise a TimeoutExpired exception with a specific error string.
* process_iter() might grow an "attrs" parameter similar to Process.as_dict()
invoke the necessary methods and include the results into a "cache"
attribute attached to the returned Process instances so that one can avoid
catching NSP and AccessDenied:
for p in process_iter(attrs=['cpu_percent']):
print(p.cache['cpu_percent'])
This also leads questions as whether we should introduce a sorting order.
* round Process.memory_percent() result?
COMPATIBILITY BREAKAGE
======================
Removals (will likely happen in 2.2):
* (S) psutil.Process.nice (deprecated in 0.5.0)
* (S) get_process_list (deprecated in 0.5.0)
* (S) psutil.*mem* functions (deprecated in 0.3.0 and 0.6.0)
* (M) psutil.network_io_counters (deprecated in 1.0.0)
* (M) local_address and remote_address Process.connection() namedtuple fields
(deprecated in 1.0.0)
REJECTED IDEAS
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