xsysinfo (1x)

xsysinfo [-help] [-update n] [-[no]title] [-[no]labels] [-[no]loadavg] [-[no]load] [-[no]mem] [-[no]swap] [-[no]smp]

Xsysinfo is an X application to display some Linux kernel parameters in graphical form. It is like a mix of top, free and xload with the difference that the values are shown in form of a horizontal bar. The displayed values are: CPU load average, CPU load, memory and swap sizes (details see below).

-update n

Set update rate to n milli-seconds

-title

Show title string

-notitle

Don't show title string

-labels

Show gauge labels

-nolabels

Don't show gauge labels

-loadavg

Show CPU load average value

-noloadavg

Don't show CPU load average value

-load

Show CPU load value

-noload

Don't show CPU load value

-smp

Show separate SMP loads

-nosmp

Don't show separate SMP loads.

-mem

Show memory info

-nomem

Don't show memory info

-swap

Show swap info

-noswap

Don't show swap info

-help

Display options

Xsysinfo display the following values:

CPU load average

CPU load average between 0.000-8.000. The gauge's bar is subdivided into segments, where one segment represents a load value of 1.0. The bar's full length is automatically scaled, depending on the displayed value.

CPU load

percentage CPU load time to CPU idle time subdivided in three segments: user load, system load and nice load. On an SMP system the -smp option replaces the single total load meter with a separate meter for each processor.

Memory

The memory gauge's bar is subdivided into two segments with the amount of physical memory, which is used by processes on the left and physical memory used for the page and buffer cache on the right. The length of the whole bar, which is the sum of these two values, shows the amount of physical memory currently used by the system.

Swap

The percentage of swap space used by the system to total amount of swap space.

Xsyinfo is written by Gabor Herr <[email protected]> and currently maintained by Ronald Wahl <[email protected]>.

This manual page was created by Roland Rosenfeld <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).