I built procinsh, a 3D Linux process inspector inspired by Ghost in the Shell.<p>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.<p>The backend is written in Rust and uses procfs, eBPF, ptrace, and process_vm_readv to collect information from the system.<p>Demo video:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rnWvN8ej2A" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rnWvN8ej2A</a><p>More details about the motivation and implementation:
<a href="https://akawashiro.com/articles/procinsh-en" rel="nofollow">https://akawashiro.com/articles/procinsh-en</a>
this looks something pulled straight from a hacker tv show that I would have thought fake as hell
Obligatory reference to psDoom [1]. There’s something quite fun about killing the monster labeled “init” and poof! Your whole system is now dead.<p>[1] <a href="https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/</a>
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 instances
Did a procfs scraper once, handling pids vanishing mid-read took me ages.
Look at that FPS!! Now we need another inspector to monitor Procinsh.
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