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- Obligatory reference to psDoom [1]. There’s something quite fun about killing the monster labeled “init” and poof! Your whole system is now dead.by cobbzilla
- Did a procfs scraper once, handling pids vanishing mid-read took me ages.by hncbw02z5a
- Over 20 years ago we had a doom in which your processes were represented by monsters and killing them sent the kill signal. :)by luckystarr
- These visualizations appear to so similar to the ones in the movie Hackers 1995. Is there a pool at the rooftop? :)by gfalcao
- now I can finally live my dream of saying "it's a unix system I know this" in front of my family and non-technical friends while pulling this thing up and inspecting my bloated tmux processes running 20 claude code instancesby zzulanas
- this looks something pulled straight from a hacker tv show that I would have thought fake as hellby g3z
- I built procinsh, a 3D Linux process inspector inspired by Ghost in the Shell.
It visualizes running processes and their relationships in a 3D UI. Process activity, memory maps, file I/O, and socket communication are reflected in real time.
The backend is written in Rust and uses procfs, eBPF, ptrace, and process_vm_readv to collect information from the system.
Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rnWvN8ej2A
More details about the motivation and implementation: https://akawashiro.com/articles/procinsh-en
by a_kawashiro