diff -r 000000000000 -r 6474c204b198 python/psutil/TODO --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/python/psutil/TODO Wed Dec 31 06:09:35 2014 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +TODO +==== + +A collection of ideas and notes about stuff to implement in future versions. +"#NNN" occurrences refer to bug tracker issues at: +https://code.google.com/p/psutil/issues/list + + +HIGHER PRIORITY +=============== + + * #387: system-wide connections (netstat). + * OpenBSD support. + + * #371: CPU temperature (apparently OSX and Linux only; on Linux it requires + lm-sensors lib). + + * #250: net ifaces speed. + + * (Linux) resource limit get/set - see man prlimit. + + * Process.name on Windows is slow: + http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6587036/ + + * Windows binary for Python 3.3 64-bit. + + * #269: expose network ifaces RX/TW queues. + + +LOWER PRIORITY +============== + + * #355: Android support. + + * #276: GNU/Hurd support. + + * NetBSD support? + + * DranflyBSD support? + + * AIX support? + + * examples/pidof.py (same as 'pidof' cli tool) + + * examples/pstree.py (same as 'pstree' cli tool) + * get_threads() should also return thread names in order to implement it + + * examples/taskmgr-gui.py (using tk). + + * system-wide # 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 + + +DEBATABLE +========= + + * [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. + + * cpu_percent(): current default interval is 0.1 so that by default it will + produce a meaningful value. It represents a trap in case the user iterates + over multiple processes though, as it introduces a big slowdown. + Should it default to 0.0? + + * Rename connection ntuple's fields 'local_address', 'remote_address' to + 'laddr', 'raddr' (note in accordance with http://bugs.python.org/issue17675) + + * Process per-cpus percent (XXX Windows only?), see: + https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/psutil/ErrKTxAbu50 + + * 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.get_cpu_times() might return + a (user, system, user_children, system_children) ntuple.