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Jan Rodák fd25df818b compat stats: fix system_cpu_usage, precpu_stats, one-shot CPU%, and docs
- Read system_cpu_usage from /proc/stat (first 7 CPU fields, including idle) instead of cgroups.SystemCPUUsage(), matching Docker semantics.
- Use CPU values from GetContainerStats() instead of a second cgroup read to avoid a timing gap.
- Populate precpu_stats on stream=false with a 100 ms sampling pauseso the Docker CPU% formula returns a directionally correc snapshot. This only affects the compat per-container endpoint; podman-remote stats uses a separate libpod handler.
- Return cpu_stats.cpu as 0 for one-shot=true since the two samples are only milliseconds apart.
- Replace direct precpu copy instead of JSON marshal/unmarshal round-trip.
- Propagate errors via fmt.Errorf instead of logrus.Errorf, letting callers decide how to handle them. Parse errors in /proc/stat fields are hard errors instead of silently returning partial data.
- Document that --no-stream CPU% is a coarse ~100 ms snapshot; streaming gives 5-second interval readings.

Fixes: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/issues/28761
Fixes: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/issues/24730
Fixes: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/issues/29912
Fixes: https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman/issues/25709

Signed-off-by: Jan Rodák <hony.com@seznam.cz>
2026-10-07 13:19:53 +02:00
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Podman Documentation

The online man pages and other documents regarding Podman can be found at Read The Docs. The man pages can be found under the Commands link on that page.

Build the Docs

Directory Structure

Directory
Markdown source for man pages docs/source/markdown/
man pages aliases as .so files docs/source/markdown/links/
target for output docs/build
man pages docs/build/man
remote linux man pages docs/build/remote/linux
remote darwin man pages docs/build/remote/darwin
remote windows html pages docs/build/remote/windows

Support files

docs/remote-docs.sh Read the docs/source/markdown files and format for each platform
docs/links-to-html.lua pandoc filter to do aliases for html files
docs/use-pagetitle.lua pandoc filter to set html document title

Manpage Syntax

The syntax for the formatting of all man pages can be found here.

API Reference

The latest online documentation is automatically generated by the readthedocs build process. It uses redoc to render the swagger.yml file, the swagger is build and injected as static resource in the readthedocs build process, see the .readthedocs.yaml file.

The swagger file can be downloaded from https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/swagger.yaml. Note the latest link always contains the latest yaml from the main branch, if you like a specific version replace latest with the version, i.e. for v6.0.0 https://docs.podman.io/en/v6.0.0/_static/swagger.yaml. Also this new process is only done since v5.8.4. Earlier swagger.yml files where uploaded here.

Local Testing

To build standard man pages, run make docs. Results will be in docs/build/man.

To build HTMLized man pages: Assuming that you have the dependencies installed, then also install (showing Fedora in the example):

$ sudo dnf install python3-sphinx python3-recommonmark
$ pip install sphinx-markdown-tables myst_parser

(The above dependencies are current as of 2022-09-15. If you experience problems, please see requirements.txt in this directory, it will almost certainly be more up-to-date than this README.)

After that completes, cd to the docs directory in your Podman sandbox and then do make html.

You can then preview the html files in docs/build/html with:

python -m http.server 8000 --directory build/html

...and point your web browser at http://localhost:8000/