AIX Support Coming?

[serak]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
No, but psutil support this os
Describe the solution you'd like
AIX/ppc64 support
Describe alternatives you've considered
psutil

[Lomanic]

We don't have access to this kind of hardware/operating system, we have to rely on external contributions for this (like in #834 (comment)).

We already partially support aix

cpu/cpu_aix.go
cpu/cpu_aix_cgo.go
cpu/cpu_aix_nocgo.go
disk/disk_aix.go
disk/disk_aix_cgo.go
disk/disk_aix_nocgo.go
load/load_aix.go
load/load_aix_cgo.go
load/load_aix_nocgo.go
mem/mem_aix.go
mem/mem_aix_cgo.go
mem/mem_aix_nocgo.go
net/net_aix.go
net/net_aix_cgo.go
net/net_aix_nocgo.go

Can you confirm you are missing the host and process sub-packages? Can you confirm the cpu, disk, load, mem and net sub-packages are functional on aix/ppc64?

[serak]

Ok the provided example works fine on Power8 (Go Support) .

is there a test bench that i can execute for all functions ?

[serak]

cpu.Info() is also very expensive, because it is calling prtconf , how is the standard here if i want to make a pull request should i call processes and get values of use native C library?

[Lomanic]

cpu.Info() shells out to an external process only if you disable cgo ( CGO_ENABLED=0), it's defined twice in

gopsutil/cpu/cpu_aix_nocgo.go

Line 53 in 042e636

out, err := invoke.CommandWithContext(ctx, "prtconf")

and https://github.com/shirou/gopsutil/blob/master/cpu/cpu_aix_cgo.go#L46

If you were to implement the missing packages with cgo, please add nocgo stubs like in https://github.com/shirou/gopsutil/blob/042e63609b4e22a95b6201d48c874b62a976d133/disk/disk_darwin_nocgo.go

There are tests for each packages, you can run all of them with go test github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v3/...

[jxsl13]

Host version detection:
https://github.com/jxsl13/osfacts/blob/master/distro/distro_aix.go#L21

[Dylan-M]

I'll be working on this here:
https://github.com/Dylan-M/gopsutil/tree/aix_support

However, it will likely only be for nocgo support, since my software using it doesn't enable cgo. I'll make best effort to support it with cgo enabled as well.

[Dylan-M]

Host version detection: https://github.com/jxsl13/osfacts/blob/master/distro/distro_aix.go#L21

Why specifically did you reference this?

[Dylan-M]

I've implemented everything that I both have time to do, and is within my capabilities (I'm new at Golang) in #1651

This greatly improves AIX support in general, and covers all of my own use cases except processes. I hope to have time for that later.

[shirou]

Close as completed by #1651. Thank you for your contribution!