topaz command line argument for documentation purposes ...

Hey,

I might have a very special wish. Would it be possible to add a command line argument to topaz which does nothing, but for documentation purposes.

I like to start topaz from scripts and therefore have multiple topaz scripts running and it seems to be difficult to see from a process viewer what the topaz script is actually doing.

So something like

topaz --info="HTTP-Server"

topaz --info="HouseKeeper Task"

topaz --info="Publication Task"

So that a "ps axf" also shows you the parameter and one can identify the corresponding task very easily.

Marten

While we are in the topic, I also always wanted to be able to see what I set via "System _cacheName:"  and get via "indexOf: 'ProcessName'" in  the "ps -fea | grep gem"   :) 

But I can imagine this is harder since I can set the cacheName: AFTER  started the process and this is at Smalltalk land...

But still,  I may be able to send such name to topaz itself (besides setting it _cacheName:) and would be using same request as said by Marten :)

Cheers,

 

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Dale Henrichs via Glass <[hidden email]> wrote:

Marten,

I've submitted an internal feature request (bug 45684).

Dale

On 09/15/2015 01:46 PM, Marten Feldtmann via Glass wrote:

I might have a very special wish. Would it be possible to add a command line argument to topaz which does nothing, but for documentation purposes.


I like to start topaz from scripts and therefore have multiple topaz scripts running and it seems to be difficult to see from a process viewer what the topaz script is actually doing.



So something like


topaz --info="HTTP-Server"


topaz --info="HouseKeeper Task"


topaz --info="Publication Task"


So that a "ps axf" also shows you the parameter and one can identify the corresponding task very easily.

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While we are in the topic, I also always wanted to be able to see what I set via "System _cacheName:"  and get via "indexOf: 'ProcessName'" in  the "ps -fea | grep gem"   :) 

But I can imagine this is harder since I can set the cacheName: AFTER  started the process and this is at Smalltalk land...

But still,  I may be able to send such name to topaz itself (besides setting it _cacheName:) and would be using same request as said by Marten :)

Cheers,

 

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Dale Henrichs via Glass <[hidden email]> wrote:

Marten,

I've submitted an internal feature request (bug 45684).

Dale

On 09/15/2015 01:46 PM, Marten Feldtmann via Glass wrote:

I might have a very special wish. Would it be possible to add a command line argument to topaz which does nothing, but for documentation purposes.


I like to start topaz from scripts and therefore have multiple topaz scripts running and it seems to be difficult to see from a process viewer what the topaz script is actually doing.



So something like


topaz --info="HTTP-Server"


topaz --info="HouseKeeper Task"


topaz --info="Publication Task"


So that a "ps axf" also shows you the parameter and one can identify the corresponding task very easily.

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For the record, I modified startSeaside30_Adaptor to add such an info:

cat << EOF | nohup $GEMSTONE/bin/topaz -u "Seaside" -l -q -e $4 -I $APPLICATION_DIR/.topazini 2>&1 >> $APPLICATION_LOG_DIR/${1}_server-${2}.log &

And the startMaintenance30:

cat << EOF | nohup $GEMSTONE/bin/topaz -u "MaintenanceVM" -l -q -e $GEMSTONE/seaside/etc/maintenance30.conf -I $APPLICATION_DIR/.topazini 2>&1 > $APPLICATION_LOG_DIR/maintenance_gem.log &

And I did something similar for my background process gems...

You may want to add this by default (since you already took the session name one...)