.TH ATOPRC 5 "January 2024" "Linux"
.SH NAME
.B atoprc
- atop/atopsar related rcfile
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the rcfile of the
.I atop
and
.I atopsar
commands.
These commands can be used to monitor the system and process load on a
Linux system.
.PP
The atoprc file contains the default settings. These settings are read
during startup, first from the system-wide rcfile
.I /etc/atoprc
and after that from the user-specific rcfile
.I ~/.atoprc
(so system-wide settings can be overruled by an individual user).
The options in both rcfiles are identical.
.PP
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
The rcfile contains keyword-value pairs, one on every line (blank lines
and lines starting with a #-sign are ignored).
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The following keywords can be specified:
.PP
.TP 4
.B flags
A list of default flags for
.B atop
can be defined here. The flags which are allowed
are 't', 'B', 'H', 'G', '2' till '9', 'g', 'm', 'd', 'n', 'u', 'p', 's', 'c', 'v',
\&'C', 'M', 'D', 'N', 'A',
\&'a', 'y', 'Y', 'f', 'F', 'R', '1', 'e', 'E' and 'x'.
.PP
.TP 4
.B twindir
The default absolute path name of the temporary directory in which the twin file should be allocated.
.PP
.TP 4
.B interval
The default interval value in seconds.
.PP
.TP 4
.B linelen
The length of a screen line when sending output to a file or pipe (default 80).
.PP
.TP 4
.B username
The default regular expression for the users for which active
processes will be shown.
.PP
.TP 4
.B procname
The default regular expression for the process names to be shown.
.PP
.TP 4
.B maxlinecpu
The maximum number of active CPUs that will be shown.
.PP
.TP 4
.B maxlinegpu
The maximum number of active GPUs that will be shown.
.PP
.TP 4
.B maxlinelvm
The maximum number of active logical volumes that will be shown.
.PP
.TP 4
.B maxlinemdd
The maximum number of active multiple devices that will be shown.
.PP
.TP 4
.B maxlinedisk
The maximum number of active disks that will be shown.
.PP
.TP 4
.B maxlinenfsm
The maximum number of NFS mounts that will be shown on an NFS client.
.PP
.TP 4
.B maxlineintf
The maximum number of active network interfaces that will be shown.
.PP
.TP 4
.B maxlinecont
The maximum number of active containers that will be shown.
.PP
.TP 4
.B cpucritperc
The busy percentage considered critical for a processor
(see section COLORS in the man-page of the
.I atop
command).
This percentage is used to determine 
a weighted percentage for line coloring and sorting of active processes
in text mode.
When this value is zero, no line coloring or automatic sorting is performed
for this resource.
.PP
.TP 4
.B dskcritperc
The busy percentage considered critical for a disk
(see section COLORS in the man-page of the
.I atop
command).
This percentage is used to determine 
a weighted percentage for line coloring and sorting of active processes
in text mode.
When this value is zero, no line coloring or automatic sorting is performed
for this resource.
.PP
.TP 4
.B netcritperc
The busy percentage considered critical for a network interface
(see section COLORS in the man-page of the
.I atop
command).
This percentage is used to determine 
a weighted percentage for line coloring and sorting of active processes
in text mode.
When this value is zero, no line coloring or automatic sorting is performed
for this resource.
.PP
.TP 4
.B memcritperc
The percentage considered critical for memory utilization
(see section COLORS in the man-page of the
.I atop
command).
This percentage is used to determine 
a weighted percentage for line coloring and sorting of active processes
in text mode.
When this value is zero, no line coloring or automatic sorting is performed
for this resource.
.PP
.TP 4
.B swpcritperc
The occupation percentage considered critical for swap space
(see section COLORS in the man-page of the
.I atop
command).
This percentage is used to determine 
a weighted percentage for line coloring and sorting of active processes
in text mode.
When this value is zero, no line coloring or automatic sorting is performed
for this resource.
.PP
.TP 4
.B swoutcritsec
The number of pages swapped out per second considered critical for 
for memory utilization
(see section COLORS in the man-page of the
.I atop
command).
This threshold is used in combination with 'memcritperc' to determine a
weighted percentage for line coloring and sorting of active processes
in text mode.
When this value is zero, no line coloring or automatic sorting is performed
for this resource.
.PP
.TP 4
.B almostcrit
A percentage of the critical percentage to determine if the resource
is almost critical
(see section COLORS in the man-page of the
.I atop
command).
When this value is zero, no line coloring for `almost critical' is
performed.
.PP
.TP 4
.B cpubarwidth
Number of columns used per bar in the processor bar graph.
The default value is 0 which means that the bar width will
be scaled automatically (the wider the terminal, the more
columns per bar up to a maximum of three).
With the value 1, 2 or 3 the number of bars can be statically
pinned to that number of columns, with one column of white
space in between the bars.
.PP
.TP 4
.B colorinfo
Definition of color name for information messages (default: green)
in text mode.
.br
Allowed colors are: red green yellow blue magenta cyan black white.
.PP
.TP 4
.B colorthread
Definition of color name for thread-specific lines when using
the 'y' option (default: yellow).
.br
Allowed colors are: red green yellow blue magenta cyan black white.
.PP
.TP 4
.B coloralmost
Definition of color name for almost critical resources (default: cyan)
in text mode.
.br
Allowed colors are: red green yellow blue magenta cyan black white.
.PP
.TP 4
.B colorcritical
Definition of color name for critical resources (default: red)
in text mode.
.br
Allowed colors are: red green yellow blue magenta cyan black white.
.PP
.TP 4
.B atopsarflags
A list of default flags for
.B atopsar
can be defined here. The flags that are allowed
are 'S', 'x', 'C', 'M', 'H', 'a', 'A' and the flags to select
one or more specific reports.
.PP
.TP 4
.B perfevents
Defines whether or not the CPU cycle counter should be retrieved
by
.B atop
via the 'perf' counters. The values 'auto' (default), 'enable' 
or 'disable' can be specified. In case of 'auto', the CPU cycle
counter will not be retrieved on virtual machines due to the
overhead of reading this counter in a guest.
.PP
.TP 4
.B pacctdir
The name of the topdirectory used by the
.B atopacctd
daemon. In this directory, the daemon creates a subdirectory 
.B pacct_shadow.d
in which files will be written containing the process accounting records.
The default topdirectory is
.B /var/run
and this option only has to be specified when the
.B atopacctd
daemon is started with an alternative topdirectory as command line argument.
.br
This option can only be specified in the 
.B /etc/atoprc
file (on system level)!
.PP
An example of the
.B /etc/atoprc
or
.B ~/.atoprc
file:
.TP 8
\ 
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flags\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Aaf
.br
interval\ \ \ \ \ \ 5
.br
username
.br
procname
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maxlinecpu\ \ \ \ 4
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maxlinedisk\ \ \ 10
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maxlineintf\ \ \ 5
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cpucritperc\ \ \ 80
.br
almostcrit\ \ \ \ 90
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atopsarflags\ \ CMH
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ownprocline\ \ \ PID:50 VGROW:40 RGROW:45 COMMAND-LINE:50
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ownpagline\ \ \ \ PAGSCAN:3 BLANKBOX:0 PAGSWIN:3 PAGSWOUT:7
.PP
The keywords 'ownprocline' and 'ownpagline' are explained in the
subsequent section.
.SH OWN DEFINITION OF OUTPUT LINE
Via the rcfile it is possible to define the layout of the output lines
yourself, i.e. you can define the layout of one line with process information
with the keyword 'ownprocline' (to be selected with the key 'o'
or the flag \-o) and you can redefine all lines with system information.
.PP
The layout of an output-line can be defined as follows
(notice that this should be specified as one line in the rcfile):
.PP
\ \ \ keyword\ \ \ <columnid>:<prio> [<columnid>:<prio> ...]
.PP
The
.B columnid
is the symbolic name of a column that should shown at this position
in the output line.
.br
The
.B prio
is a positive integer value that determines which columns have precedence
whenever not all specified columns fit into the current screen-width.
The higher value, the higher priority.
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The column-specifications should be separated by a space. The order
in which columns have been specified is the order in which they will be
shown, with respect to their priority (columns that do not fit, will be
dropped dynamically).
.PP
A special columnid for system lines is 'BLANKBOX'. This indicates
that an empty column is required at this position. Also this
special columnid is followed by a priority (usually low). 
.PP
The following definition can be specified for process information:
.PP
.TP 4
.B ownprocline
The columnids are the names of the columns that are shown in the
normal output of the process-related lines that are shown by
.I atop
such as 'PID', 'CMD', 'S', ....
The only exception is the special columnid 'SORTITEM' that is used to
show one of the columns CPU%/DSK%/MEM%/NET%, depending on the chosen
sort-criterium.
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An example of a user-defined process line:
.PP
.TP 8
\ 
ownprocline\ \ \ PID:20 PPID:10 SYSCPU:15 USRCPU:15
VGROW:14 VSIZE:12 RGROW:14 RSIZE:12 ST:8 EXC:7 S:11 SORTITEM:18 CMD:20
.PP
The following definitions are used internally by
.I atop
as the default system lines (you can redefine each of them in the
rcfile as one line):
.PP
.TP 4
.B ownsysprcline
Redefinition of line labeled with 'PRC':
.PP
.TP 8
\ 
ownsysprcline\ \ \ PRCSYS:8 PRCUSER:8 BLANKBOX:0 PRCNPROC:7 PRCNZOMBIE:5 PRCCLONES:4 BLANKBOX:0 PRCNNEXIT:6
.PP
.TP 4
.B ownallcpuline
Redefinition of line labeled with 'CPU' for total CPU-utilization:
.PP
.TP 8
\ 
ownallcpuline\ \ \ CPUSYS:8 CPUUSER:7 CPUIRQ:4 BLANKBOX:0 CPUIDLE:5 CPUWAIT:6 BLANKBOX:0 CPUSTEAL:1 CPUGUEST:3
.PP
.TP 4
.B ownonecpuline
Redefinition of line labeled with 'CPU' for utilization of one CPU:
.PP
.TP 8
\ 
ownonecpuline\ \ \ CPUISYS:8 CPUIUSER:7 CPUIIRQ:4 BLANKBOX:0 CPUIIDLE:5 CPUIWAIT:6 BLANKBOX:0 CPUISTEAL:1 CPUIGUEST:3
.PP
.TP 4
.B owncplline
Redefinition of line labeled with 'CPL':
.PP
.TP 8
\ 
owncplline\ \ \ CPLAVG1:4 CPLAVG5:3 CPLAVG15:2 BLANKBOX:0 CPLCSW:6 CPLINTR:5 BLANKBOX:0 CPLNUMCPU:1
.PP
.TP 4
.B ownmemline
Redefinition of line labeled with 'MEM':
.PP
.TP 8
\ 
ownmemline\ \ \ MEMTOT:2 MEMFREE:5 MEMCACHE:3 MEMDIRTY:1 MEMBUFFER:3 MEMSLAB:3 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0
.PP
.TP 4
.B ownswpline
Redefinition of line labeled with 'SWP':
.PP
.TP 8
\ 
ownswpline\ \ \ SWPTOT:3 SWPFREE:4 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0 SWPCOMMITTED:5 SWPCOMMITLIM:6
.PP
.TP 4
.B ownpagline
Redefinition of line labeled with 'PAG':
.PP
.TP 8
\ 
ownpagline\ \ \ PAGSCAN:3 PAGSTALL:1 BLANKBOX:0 PAGSWIN:4 PAGSWOUT:3
.PP
.TP 4
.B owndskline
Redefinition of lines labeled with 'LVM', 'MDD' and 'DSK':
.PP
.TP 8
\ 
owndskline\ \ \ DSKNAME:8 DSKBUSY:7 DSKNREAD:6 DSKNWRITE:6 DSKKBPERRD:4 DSKKBPERWR:4 DSKMBPERSECRD:5 DSKMBPERSECWR:5 DSKAVQUEUE:1 DSKAVIO:5
.PP
.TP 4
.B ownnettrline
Redefinition of line labeled with 'NET' for transport:
.PP
.TP 8
\ 
ownnettrline\ \ \ NETTRANSPORT:9 NETTCPI:8 NETTCPO:8 NETUDPI:8 NETUDPO:8 NETTCPACTOPEN:6 NETTCPPASVOPEN:5 NETTCPRETRANS:4 NETTCPINERR:3 NETTCPORESET:20 NETUDPNOPORT:1 NETUDPINERR:3
.PP
.TP 4
.B ownnetnetline
Redefinition of line labeled with 'NET' for network:
.PP
.TP 8
\ 
ownnetnetline\ \ \ NETNETWORK:5 NETIPI:4 NETIPO:4 NETIPFRW:4 NETIPDELIV:4 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0 BLANKBOX:0 NETICMPIN:1 NETICMPOUT:1
.PP
.TP 4
.B ownnetifline
Redefinition of line labeled with 'NET' for interfaces:
.PP
.TP 8
\ 
ownnetifline\ \ \ NETNAME:8 NETPCKI:7 NETPCKO:7 NETSPEEDIN:6 NETSPEEDOUT:6 NETCOLLIS:3 NETMULTICASTIN:2 NETRCVERR:5 NETSNDERR:5 NETRCVDROP:4 NETSNDDROP:4
.PP
The lines above are shown in the order as shown by
.I atop
in combination with the
.B -f
flag (in a very wide window you should be able to see all of the columns).
.SH SEE ALSO
.B atop(1),
.B atopsar(1),
.B atopacctd(8),
.B netatop(4),
.B netatopd(8),
.B logrotate(8)
.br
.B https://www.atoptool.nl
.SH AUTHOR
Gerlof Langeveld (gerlof.langeveld@atoptool.nl)
.br
JC van Winkel