Subject: ANNOUNCE: xsysinfo 1.2 available
From: [email-masked] (Gabor Herr)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 08:30:40 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

xsysinfo 1.2 is available at sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming and
soon at tsx-11.mit.edu in the usual directory.

WHAT IS XSYSINFO:

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, CPU idle, memory and swap size.

Xsysinfo 1.2 runs at least under Linux 0.99pl5 with the proc filesystem.
(as kernels from this release on support the CPU idle time, no patch is
necessary like in earlier versions of xsysinfo.)

The binaries are compiled for XFree-1.2 (!) and libc-4.3.

NEW FEATURES:

o       load value

   The gauge for CPU load is now capable to display values up to 8.0. The
   bar is automatically subdivided in segments when necessary.

o       proc filesystem

   The proc filesystem under kernel 0.99pl5 reports the absolute CPU idle
   time in file /proc/uptime and not like the earlier kernels, with my patches
   applied, in file /proc/idle. I changed xsysinfo to obtain the idle value
   from uptime.

o       swap display

   The 0.99pl5 kernel doesn't support a detailed swap space reporting in
   /proc/meminfo any longer. Only the total swap space statistics can be
   obtained, so the swap gauge of xsysinfo is not segmented as in version 1.1.

o       color resources

   There is a separate resource file for color displays, which is loaded
   automatically by X's customizations mechanism.

Have fun watching the kernel...

Gabor

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Gabor Herr			Email: [email-masked]
Computer Science Department
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany