lsmp.tproj/lsmp.1

   1 .\" Copyright (c) 2012, Apple Inc.  All rights reserved.
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   3 .Dd Jul 24, 2012
   4 .Dt LSMP 1
   5 .Os "Mac OS X"
   6 .Sh NAME
   7 .Nm lsmp
   8 .Nd Display mach port information for processes on the system
   9 .Sh SYNOPSIS
  10 .Nm lsmp
  11 .Fl h
  12 .Pp
  13 .Nm lsmp
  14 .Ar -p <pid>
  15 Show mach port usage for <pid>. Run with root privileges to see detailed info about port destinations etc.
  16 .Pp
  17 .Nm lsmp
  18 .Ar -v
  19 Show information in detail for Kernel object based ports. Including thread ports and special ports attached to it.
  20 .Pp
  21 .Nm lsmp
  22 .Ar -a
  23 Show mach port usage for all tasks in the system
  24 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  25 The
  26 .Nm lsmp
  27  command prints information about every active right in a task's port space, giving a view into the inter-process communication behavior of that task.
  28 .P
  29 .nf
  30 Following is an explanation of each symbol and values from the output.
  31 name        : Task unique name for a port. A "-" signifies that this is a member of a port-set
  32 ipc-object  : A unique identifier for a kernel object. A "+" sign implies that this entry is expanded from above ipc-object.
  33 rights      : Rights corresponding to this name. Possible values are recv, send, send-once and port-set.
  34 flags       : Flags indicating port status.
  35                 T : Port has tempowner set
  36                 G : Port is guarded
  37                 S : Port has strict guarding restrictions
  38                 I : Port has importance donation flag set
  39                 R : Port is marked reviving
  40                 P : Port has task pointer set
  41 boost       : Importance boost count
  42 reqs        : Notifications armed on this port.
  43                 D : Dead name notification
  44                 N : No sender notification
  45                 P : Port Destroy requests
  46 recv        : Number of recv rights for this name.
  47 send        : Number of send rights stored at this name. This does NOT reflect the total number of send rights for this recv right.
  48 sonce       : Number of outstanding send-once rights for this receive right.
  49 oref        : Do send rights exist somewhere for this receive right?
  50 qlimit      : Queue limit for this port. If orefs column shows -> then it indicates the queue limit on the destination port. And a <- indicates this port right is destined to receive messages from process referred in identifier column.
  51 msgcount    : Number of messages enqueued on this port. See qlimit for -> and <- explanations.
  52 context     : Mach port context value.
  53 identifier  : A unique identifier for a kernel object or task's name for this right. This field is described by the type column.
  54 .fi
  55 .Sh SEE ALSO
  56 .Xr ddt 1
  57 .Xr top 1