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gamemodelist - search for processes running with gamemode

gamemodelist

gamemodelist will search the runtime of all processes running which started GameMode via libgamemodeauto.so and print them with ps(1) command output. This helper script makes it easy to find which processes are utilizing GameMode via libgamemodeauto.so when troubleshooting potential game issues.

libgamemodeauto.so.0 will be found in the shared object maps of running processes utilizing GameMode. Run the following command to print processes loaded with libgamemodeauto.so.0. GameMode can be started other ways but this script will only detect processes utilizing GameMode via libgamemodeauto.so.

gamemodelist

The output is a process table from ps(1) command.

PID PPID USER NI PSR COMMAND

Where each of these fields are defined in ps(1) manual. For your convenience here's a definition for each field.

COLUMN DESCRIPTION
PID Process ID
PPID Parent process ID
USER User name owning the process.
NI Nice value. This ranges from 19 (nicest) to -20 (not nice to others), See nice (1).
PSR Processor that process is currently assigned to. Useful when setting process affinity using taskset (1) utility.
COMMAND Command name (only the executable name).

gamemodrun(1), nice(1), ps(1), taskset(1).

GameMode source can be found at https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode.git

gamemodelist was authored by Sam Gleske (https://github.com/samrocketman/)

GameMode was authored by Feral Interactive (linux-contact@feralinteractive.com)

4 May 2020 1.8.1