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.
Did a procfs scraper once, handling pids vanishing mid-read took me ages.
g3z•36m ago
this looks something pulled straight from a hacker tv show that I would have thought fake as hell
zzulanas•22m ago
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
v3ss0n•7m ago
Look at that FPS!! Now we need another inspector to monitor Procinsh.
a_kawashiro•3h ago
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