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XOSVIEW(1) General Commands Manual XOSVIEW(1) NAME xosview - X based system monitor SYNOPSIS xosview [options] DESCRIPTION xosview is a monitor which displays the status of several system parame- ters. These include CPU usage, load average, memory, swap space, network usage and more. Each resource is displayed as a horizontal bar which is separated into color coded regions showing how much of the resource is be- ing put to a particular use. xosview runs on several platforms (Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Dragon- flyBSD, some Solaris systems, IRIX 6.5, HPUX and GNU). Not all of the me- ters described below are supported on all platforms. Some of the meters may appear different depending upon the platform xosview is running on. Note that *BSD is used as an abbreviation for all the supported BSD operat- ing systems (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD). Load: Kernel reported load average all platforms : load Linux : load | CPU frequency *BSD : load | CPU frequency SunOS5 : load | CPU frequency CPU Usage Linux : user | nice | system | soft-interrupt | interrupt | io-wait | guest | niced guest | stolen | idle *BSD : user | nice | system | interrupt | idle SunOS5 : user | system | wait | idle IRIX : user | system | interrupt | wait | idle HPUX : user | nice | system | interrupt | idle Memory Usage Linux : used | buffers | slab | map | cache | free FreeBSD: active | inactive | wired | cache | free DFBSD : active | inactive | wired | cache | free OpenBSD: active | inactive | wired | free NetBSD : active | inactive | wired | free SunOS5 : kernel | zfs | other | free IRIX : kernel | fs | user | free HPUX : text | used | other | free GNU : active | inactive | wired | free Swap Usage Linux : used | free *BSD : used | free SunOS5 : used | free HPUX : used | free GNU : used | free Disk Usage: Throughput to/from local disk, per second Linux : in | out | idle *BSD : in | out | idle SunOS5 : in | out | idle Page Swapping: Pages to/from swap, per second Linux : in | out | idle *BSD : in | out | idle SunOS5 : in | out | idle HPUX : in | out | idle GNU : in | out | idle Network Usage Linux : in | out | idle *BSD : in | out | idle SunOS5 : in | out | idle GFX Usage: Framebuffer exchanges, per second IRIX : swapbuffers Interrupts: "leds" which blink when an interrupt occurs Linux : IRQs *BSD : IRQs Interrupt Rate: Per second Linux : interrupts | free *BSD : interrupts | free SunOS5 : interrupts | free Serial Port Status: "leds" which show the serial port parameters Linux : LSR and MSR Battery Level: charge and status of batteries Linux : available | used *BSD : available | used RAID: State of disks in a software RAID array Linux : disk0 disk1 disk2 ... diskN | rebuild Wireless Link Linux : quality Sensors: Readings from sensors Linux : I2C/hwmon sensors (lmstemp) Intel Core/AMD K8+/VIA C7 temperature (coretemp) ACPI thermal zones (acpitemp) *BSD : I2C sensors (bsdsensor) Intel Core/AMD K8+ temperature (coretemp) Typing a 'q' in the window will terminate xosview. OPTIONS Most of these command line options are just a convenient way to set one or more of xosview's resources. Please see the RESOURCES section for more de- tails on what the resource is for. -v Displays the version number. -name name Sets the Resource name xosview will use (same as the -name option for typical X applications like xterm). When performing resource lookups, xosview will look under name, and then under ``xosview''. For an example, perform the following (as documented in README.netbsd): xrdb -merge Xdefaults.stipple xosview -name xosvstipple & xosview -name xosvstipplebw & -display display Sets the X display to display. This option overrides the xosview*display resource. -font font Specifies the font xosview will use for labels. This option over- rides the xosview*font resource. -title title This option sets the name xosview will tell the window manager to use for the X window and icon. This option overrides the xosview*title resource. -geometry geometry_string Sets the X geometry to geometry_string. This option overrides the xosview*geometry resource. -captions This option overrides the xosview*captions resource. It is equiva- lent to setting xosview*captions to "False". +captions This option overrides the xosview*captions resource. It is equiva- lent to setting xosview*captions to "True". -labels This option overrides the xosview*labels resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*labels to "False". +labels This option overrides the xosview*labels resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*labels to "True". -usedlabels This option overrides the xosview*usedlabels resource. It is equiv- alent to setting xosview*usedlabels to "False". +usedlabels This option overrides the xosview*usedlabels resource. It is equiv- alent to setting xosview*usedlabels to "True". -cpu This option overrides the xosview*cpu resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*cpu to "False". +cpu This option overrides the xosview*cpu resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*cpu to "True". -cpus Force the display of a single meter for all CPUs in the system. This option is equivalent to setting xosview*cpuFormat to "single". +cpus Force the display of all CPUs in the system. This option is equiva- lent to setting xosview*cpuFormat to "all". -load This option overrides the xosview*load resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*load to "False". +load This option overrides the xosview*load resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*load to "True". -mem This option overrides the xosview*mem resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*mem to "False". +mem This option overrides the xosview*mem resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*mem to "True". -swap This option overrides the xosview*swap resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*swap to "False". +swap This option overrides the xosview*swap resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*swap to "True". -battery This option overrides the xosview*battery resource. It is equiva- lent to setting xosview*battery to "False". +battery This option overrides the xosview*battery resource. It is equiva- lent to setting xosview*battery to "True". -gfx This option overrides the xosview*gfx resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*gfx to "False". +gfx This option overrides the xosview*gfx resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*gfx to "True". -wireless This option overrides the xosview*wireless resource. It is equiva- lent to setting xosview*wireless to "False". +wireless This option overrides the xosview*wireless resource. It is equiva- lent to setting xosview*wireless to "True". -net This option overrides the xosview*net resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*net to "False". +net This option overrides the xosview*net resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*net to "True". -network maxbandwidth -networkBW maxbandwidth -networkBandwidth maxbandwidth These options override the xosview*netBandwidth resource. They cause xosview to display a meter that will shows network usage, with a maximum bandwidth of maxbandwidth. Notice that setting the band- width to 0 no longer disables the meter -- use the ``-net'' option instead. -page This option overrides the xosview*page resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*page to "False". +page This option overrides the xosview*page resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*page to "True". -pagespeed val This option overrides the xosview*pageBandWidth resource. The re- source xosview*pageBandWidth will be set to val. -disk This option overrides the xosview*disk resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*disk to "False". +disk This option overrides the xosview*disk resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*disk to "True". -int This option overrides the xosview*int resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*int to "False". +int This option overrides the xosview*int resource. It is equivalent to setting xosview*int to "True". -ints +ints -interrupts +interrupts Equivalent to -int and +int. -irqrate This option overrides the xosview*irqrate resource. It is equiva- lent to setting xosview*irqrate to "False". +irqrate This option overrides the xosview*irqrate resource. It is equiva- lent to setting xosview*irqrate to "True". -intrate +intrate Equivalent to -irqrate and +irqrate. -lmstemp This option overrides the xosview*lmstemp resource. It is equiva- lent to setting xosview*lmstemp to "False". +lmstemp This option overrides the xosview*lmstemp resource. It is equiva- lent to setting xosview*lmstemp to "True". -coretemp This option overrides the xosview*coretemp resource. It is equiva- lent to setting xosview*coretemp to "False". +coretemp This option overrides the xosview*coretemp resource. It is equiva- lent to setting xosview*coretemp to "True". -acpitemp This option overrides the xosview*acpitemp resource. It is equiva- lent to setting xosview*acpitemp to "False". +acpitemp This option overrides the xosview*acpitemp resource. It is equiva- lent to setting xosview*acpitemp to "True". -bsdsensor This option overrides the xosview*bsdsensor resource. It is equiva- lent to setting xosview*bsdsensor to "False". +bsdsensor This option overrides the xosview*bsdsensor resource. It is equiva- lent to setting xosview*bsdsensor to "True". -xrm resource_string This switch allows any of xosview's resources to be set on the com- mand line. An example of how the xosview*memFreeColor could be set using this option is shown below (Note the use of " to prevent the shell from expanding '*' or from creating two separate arguments, 'xosview*memfreeColor:' and 'purple'): -xrm "xosview*memFreeColor: purple" X RESOURCES The following is a list of X resources supported by xosview. Each has a default value assigned to it. These values can be found in the file Xde- faults which can be obtained in the source distribution of xosview. They can be overridden in the usual places (/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XOsview, $HOME/.Xdefaults, etc.). It should be noted that it is OK to have a resource defined for a port of xosview that does not support the feature the resource configures. Xosview will simply ignore the resources that are set for it but not supported on a given platform. General Resources xosview*title: name The string that xosview will use for the X window title. Normally xosview will use 'xosview@machine_name' for a title. This resource overrides the default behavior. xosview*geometry: geometry_string This is a standard X geometry string that defines the size and loca- tion of the X window used by xosview. xosview*display: name The name of the display where xosview will contact the X server for drawing its window. xosview*pixmapName: name The filename of an X pixmap (xpm) file for use as a background im- age. xosview*captions: (True or False) If True then xosview will display meter captions. xosview*labels: (True or False) If True then xosview will display meter labels. xosview*meterLabelColor: color The color to use for the meter labels. xosview*usedlabels: (True or False) If True then xosview will display labels that show the percentage of the resource (or absolute amount, depending on the meter) being used. This option requires that the labels option also be set to True. xosview*usedLabelColor: color The color to use for "used" labels. xosview*borderwidth: width The width of the border for the xosview window. xosview*font: font This is the font that xosview will use. xosview*background: color This is the color that will be used for the background. xosview*foreground: color This is the color that will be used for the foreground. xosview*enableStipple: (True or False) Change to true to try stipple support. This is primarily for users stuck with 1-bit monitors/display cards. Try setting enableStipple true. Please give us feedback on this, if you use it. It needs some more work, but no one has given us any feedback so far. xosview*graphNumCols: number This defines the number of sample bars drawn when a meter is in scrolling graph mode. This also has the side-effect of defining the width of the graph columns. This is only used by meters which have graph mode enabled. Load Meter Resources xosview*load: (True or False) If True then xosview will display a load meter. xosview*loadProcColor: color This is the color that the load meter will use to display the load average when it is below the warning threshold. xosview*loadWarnColor: color This is the color that the load meter will use once the load average is above the warning but below the critical load threshold. xosview*loadCritColor: color This is the color that the load meter will use once the load average is above critical load threshold. xosview*loadIdleColor: color The load meter will use this color to display the idle field. xosview*loadPriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the load meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. xosview*loadWarnThreshold: int This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the value at which the loadmeter changes its status and color from "normal" to "warn- ing". The default value is the number of processors. xosview*loadCritThreshold: int This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the value at which the loadmeter changes its status and color from "warning" to "criti- cal". The default value is four times the warning threshold. xosview*loadDecay: (True or False) You should probably leave this at the default value (False). The load is already a time-averaged value! xosview*loadGraph: (True or False) If this is set to True then the load meter will be drawn as a hori- zontally scrolling bargraph showing the state value verses time. xosview*loadUsedFormat: (float, percent or autoscale) This resource tells xosview how to display "used" labels. The for- mats work as follows: float: Display the value as a floating point number. percent: Display the value as a percentage of the total. autoscale: Display the absolute value and automatically print the units (K, M, or G) as appropriate. xosview*loadCpuSpeed: (True or False) Display the current CPU speed in the load meter. CPU Meter Resources xosview*cpu: (True or False) If True then xosview will display a cpu meter. On Linux, *BSD, So- laris and IRIX SMP machines, the resource cpuFormat defines how me- ters are created for multiple CPUs. xosview*cpuUserColor: color The cpu meter will use this color to display the cpu user time field. xosview*cpuNiceColor: color The cpu meter will use this color to display the cpu nice time field. xosview*cpuSystemColor: color The cpu meter will use this color to display the cpu system time field. xosview*cpuInterruptColor: color The cpu meter will use this color to display the cpu hard interrupt time field. xosview*cpuSInterruptColor: color The cpu meter will use this color to display the cpu soft interrupt time field. xosview*cpuWaitColor: color The cpu meter will use this color to display the cpu IO waiting time field. xosview*cpuGuestColor: color The cpu meter will use this color to display the cpu virtualization guest time field. xosview*cpuNiceGuestColor: color The cpu meter will use this color to display the cpu niced virtual- ization guest time field. xosview*cpuStolenColor: color The cpu meter will use this color to display the cpu involuntary wait time field. xosview*cpuFreeColor: color The cpu meter will use this color to display the cpu idle time field. xosview*cpuPriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the cpu meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. xosview*cpuDecay: (True or False) If True then the cpu meter will be split vertically in two. The top half will show the instantaneous state, while the bottom half will display a decaying average of the state. xosview*cpuGraph: (True or False) If this is set to True then the cpu meter will be drawn as a hori- zontally scrolling bargraph showing the state value verses time. xosview*cpuUsedFormat: (float, percent or autoscale) This resource tells xosview how to display "used" labels. The for- mats work as follows: float: Display the value as a floating point number. percent: Display the value as a percentage of the total. autoscale: Display the absolute value and automatically print the units (K, M, or G) as appropriate. xosview*cpuFormat: (single, all, both or auto) If `single', only a cumulative meter for all CPU usage is created. `all' creates a meter for each CPU, but no cumulative meter. `both' creates one cumulative meter and one for each CPU. `auto' makes a choice based on the number of CPUs found. xosview*cpuFields: USED/USR/NIC/SYS/INT/SI/HI/WIO/GST/NGS/STL/IDLE The set of fields to show in Linux CPU meter instead of the default. Possible fields are: USED: Combine all used CPU time into one field. This is the sum of user, nice, system, soft and hard interrupts, guest, niced guest and stolen times. None of these, except stolen, may be defined together with `USED'. IDLE: Time spent doing nothing. Includes I/O wait if it is not de- fined separately. USR: Time spent in user mode processes. Includes nice, guest and niced guest if those are not defined separately. NIC: Time spent in niced user mode processes. Includes niced guest if neither it nor guest is not defined separately. SYS: Time spent in kernel code. Includes soft and hard interrupt as well as stolen time if those are not defined separately. INT: Combines soft and hard interrupt handling times into one field. SI: Time the kernel used to handle soft interrupts. Available on Linux kernel 2.6.0 and higher. HI: Time the kernel used to handle hard interrupts. Available on Linux kernel 2.6.0 and higher. WIO: Time spent waiting for I/O to complete. Available on Linux kernel 2.6.0 and higher. GST: Time spent running guest OS in virtual machine. Includes niced guest if it is not defined separately. Available on Linux kernel 2.6.24 and higher. NGS: Time spent running niced guest OS in virtual machine. Avail- able on Linux kernel 2.6.32 and higher. STL: Involuntary wait time when running as guest in virtual ma- chine. Available on Linux kernel 2.6.11 and higher. Most combinations are possible (see above for restrictions), but at least `USED' or `USR' and `SYS' need to be defined. `IDLE' field is added automatically. Memory Meter Resources xosview*mem: (True or False) If True then xosview will display a mem meter. xosview*memUsedColor: color The mem meter will use this color to display the used memory field. xosview*memSharedColor: color The mem meter will use this color to display the shared memory field. xosview*memBufferColor: color The mem meter will use this color to display the buffer memory field. xosview*memCacheColor: color The mem meter will use this color to display the cache memory field. xosview*memFreeColor: color The mem meter will use this color to display the free memory field. xosview*memKernelColor: color The mem meter will use this color to display the kernel memory field. xosview*memSharedColor: color The mem meter will use this color to display the shared memory field. xosview*memTextColor: color The mem meter will use this color to display the HP text memory field. xosview*memOtherColor: color The mem meter will use this color to display the HP ``other'' memory field. xosview*memActiveColor: color The mem meter will use this color to display the *BSD active memory field. xosview*memInactiveColor: color The mem meter will use this color to display the *BSD inactive mem- ory field. xosview*memWiredColor: color The mem meter will use this color to display the *BSD wired memory field. xosview*memSlabColor: color The mem meter will use this color to display the Linux in-kernel data structures field. xosview*memMapColor: color The mem meter will use this color to display the Linux memory mapped files field. xosview*memPriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the mem meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. xosview*memDecay: (True or False) If True then the mem meter will be split vertically in two. The top half will show the instantaneous state, while the bottom half will display a decaying average of the state. xosview*memGraph: (True or False) If this is set to True then the mem meter will be drawn as a hori- zontally scrolling bargraph showing the state value verses time. xosview*memUsedFormat: (float, percent or autoscale) This resource tells xosview how to display "used" labels. The for- mats work as follows: float: Display the value as a floating point number. percent: Display the value as a percentage of the total. autoscale: Display the absolute value and automatically print the units (K, M, or G) as appropriate. Swap Meter Resources xosview*swap: (True or False) If True then xosview will display a swap meter. xosview*swapUsedColor: color The swap meter will use this color to display the used swap field. xosview*swapFreeColor: color The swap meter will use this color to display the free swap field. xosview*swapPriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the swap meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. xosview*swapDecay: (True or False) If True then the swap meter will be split vertically in two. The top half will show the instantaneous state, while the bottom half will display a decaying average of the state. xosview*swapGraph: (True or False) If this is set to True then the swap meter will be drawn as a hori- zontally scrolling bargraph showing the state value verses time. xosview*swapUsedFormat: (float, percent or autoscale) This resource tells xosview how to display "used" labels. The for- mats work as follows: float: Display the value as a floating point number. percent: Display the value as a percentage of the total. autoscale: Display the absolute value and automatically print the units (K, M, or G) as appropriate. Page Swapping Meter Resources xosview*page: (True or False) If True then xosview will display a page meter. xosview*pageBandWidth: maxEvents This number is used to specify the expected maximum bandwidth (in events / sec) for the page meter. When the expected maximum band- width (maxEvents) is exceeded then the page meter will display the relative percentage of page swapping (25% in, 75% out). xosview*pageInColor: color The page meter will use this color to display the page-in field. xosview*pageOutColor: color The page meter will use this color to display the page-out field. xosview*pageIdleColor: color The page meter will use this color to display the idle field. xosview*pagePriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the page meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. xosview*pageDecay: (True or False) If True then the page meter will be split vertically in two. The top half will show the instantaneous state, while the bottom half will display a decaying average of the state. xosview*pageGraph: (True or False) If this is set to True then the page meter will be drawn as a hori- zontally scrolling bargraph showing the state value verses time. xosview*pageUsedFormat: (float, percent or autoscale) This resource tells xosview how to display "used" labels. The for- mats work as follows: float: Display the value as a floating point number. percent: Display the value as a percentage of the total. autoscale: Display the absolute value and automatically print the units (K, M, or G) as appropriate. Gfx Meter Resources xosview*gfx: (True or False) If True xosview will display the GfxMeter. The value is sampled once per second, due to the usage of sadc to sample data. xosview*gfxWarnColor: color This is the color that the gfx meter will use once the warn state is reached. xosview*gfxAlarmColor: color This is the color that the gfx meter will use once the alarm state is reached. xosview*gfxSwapColor: color This is the color that the gfx meter will use in normal state xosview*gfxIdleColor: color The gfx meter will use this color to display the idle field. xosview*gfxPriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the gfx meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. xosview*gfxWarnThreshold: int This number (which must be an integer >= 1) of swapbuffers per sec- ond and pipe at which the gfxmeter changes its status and color from "normal" to "warn". The default value is 60. xosview*gfxAlarmThreshold: int This number (which must be an integer >= gfxWarnThreshold) of swap- buffers per second and pipe at which the gfxmeter changes its status and color from "warn" to "alarm". The default value is 120. xosview*gfxDecay: (True or False) You should probably leave this at the default value (False). The gfx does not work in decay mode. xosview*gfxGraph: (True or False) If this is set to True then the gfx meter will be drawn as a hori- zontally scrolling bargraph showing the state value verses time. xosview*gfxUsedFormat: (float, percent or autoscale) This resource tells xosview how to display "used" labels. The for- mats work as follows: float: Display the value as a floating point number. percent: Display the value as a percentage of the total. autoscale: Display the absolute value and automatically print the units (K, M, or G) as appropriate. Network Meter Resources xosview*net: (True or False) If True xosview will display the NetMeter. Linux users will have to configure their kernels and setup some ip accounting rules to make this work. See the file README.linux which comes with the xosview distribution for details. xosview*netBandwidth: maxBytes This number is used to specify the expected maximum bandwidth (in bytes / sec) for the meter. When the expected maximum bandwidth (maxBytes) is exceeded then the network meter will display the rela- tive percentage of network usage (25% incoming, 75% outgoing). xosview*netIface: interface If False, xosview will display the data received/transmitted by any of the network interfaces. Otherwise, xosview will only display the data received/transmitted by the specified network interface. If the name is prepended with '-' sign, the data in that interface is ig- nored. xosview*netInColor: color The net meter will use this color to display the incoming field. xosview*netOutColor: color The net meter will use this color to display the outgoing field. xosview*netBackground: color This is the color that the network meter will use for the "idle" field. xosview*netPriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the net meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. xosview*netDecay: (True or False) If True then the net meter will be split vertically in two. The top half will show the instantaneous state, while the bottom half will display a decaying average of the state. xosview*netGraph: (True or False) If this is set to True then the net meter will be drawn as a hori- zontally scrolling bargraph showing the state value verses time. xosview*netUsedFormat: (float, percent or autoscale) This resource tells xosview how to display "used" labels. The for- mats work as follows: float: Display the value as a floating point number. percent: Display the value as a percentage of the total. autoscale: Display the absolute value and automatically print the units (K, M, or G) as appropriate. NFSStats (Client) Resources xosview*NFSStats: (True or False) If True then xosview will display a meter to monitor NFS client stats. xosview*NFSStatReTransColor: color The color to be used for retransmit stats. xosview*NFSStatAuthRefrshColor: color The color to be used for auth refresh stats. xosview*NFSStatCallsColor: color The color to be used for call stats. xosview*NFSStatIdleColor: color The color to be used for idle stats. NFSDStats (Server) Resources xosview*NFSDStats: (True or False) If True xosview will display a meter for NFS server/daemon stats. xosview*NFSDStatCallsColor: color The color to be used for call stats. xosview*NFSDStatBadCallsColor: color The color to be used for bad stats. xosview*NFSDStatUDPColor: color The color to be used for UDP stats. xosview*NFSDStatTCPColor: color The color to be used for TCP stats. xosview*NFSDStatIdleColor: color The color to be used for idle stats. Serial Meter Resources xosview*serial(0-9): (True, False, or portBase) If True then xosview will display a serial meter for ttySx. The portbase will be autodetected. Because autodetection can fail, (if the port is locked by ppp/slip for example) you can specify the portbase instead of "True". If a portBase is used then xosview will use it instead of trying to autodetect. For this to work on Linux xosview needs to be suid root in order to have access to the ports. See the file README.linux which comes with the xosview distribution for more details. xosview*serialOnColor: color This is the color the serial meter will use for bits that are set. xosview*serialOffColor: color This is the color the serial meter will use for bits that are not set. xosview*serialPriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the serial meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. Interrupt Meter Resources xosview*interrupts: (True or False) If True then xosview will display an interrupt meter. xosview*intSeparate: (True of False) If True then xosview will display one interrupt meter per CPU on SMP machines. If False only one meter is displayed. Default: True. xosview*intOnColor: color This is the color that will be used to show "active" interrupts. xosview*intOffColor: color This is the color that will be used to show "inactive" interrupts. xosview*intPriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the int meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. Interrupt Rate Meter Resources xosview*irqrate: (True or False) If True then xosview will display an interrupt rate meter. xosview*irqrateUsedColor: color This is the color that will be used to show the interrupt rate. xosview*irqrateIdleColor: color The irqrate meter will use this color to display the idle field. xosview*irqratePriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the irqrate meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. xosview*irqrateDecay: (True or False) If True then the irqrate meter will be split vertically in two. The top half will show the instantaneous state, while the bottom half will display a decaying average of the state. xosview*irqrateGraph: (True or False) If this is set to True then the irqrate meter will be drawn as a horizontally scrolling bargraph showing the state value verses time. xosview*irqrateUsedFormat: (float, percent or autoscale) This resource tells xosview how to display "used" labels. The for- mats work as follows: float: Display the value as a floating point number. percent: Display the value as a percentage of the total. autoscale: Display the absolute value and automatically print the units (K, M, or G) as appropriate. Lm Sensors Resources xosview*lmstemp: (True or False) If True then xosview will display a lmstemp meter. xosview*lmstempHighest: number Highest value displayed. If not given, or too small, the meter will adjust to fit actual and alarm values. Can be overridden for any me- ter with lmstempHighestN. xosview*lmstempActColor: color Color of actual value. xosview*lmstempHighColor: color Color above high alarm value, also used to indicate alarm. xosview*lmstempLowColor: color Color of actual value, when it is below low alarm value. xosview*lmstempIdleColor: color Color between actual and high alarm values. xosview*lmstempN: filename Name of input file from /proc/sys/dev/sensors/*/* or /sys/class/hw- mon/*/{,device}/, N=1,2,3,... Can also be absolute path. For exam- ple, xosview*lmstemp1: temp1 xosview*lmstemp2: temp2_input Note: Many sensors have the value and alarm threshold in files named "*_input" and "*_max"/"*_min", respectively. In such case, specify- ing the base name such as "temp1" here will be enough for having both files used. Note: If the same file name as lmstempN, lmshighN or lmslowN exists in other sensor directories, then lmsnameN needs to be specified, or absolute path used, to find the correct one. xosview*lmshighN: filename or number Optional high alarm value or name of file from /sys/class/hw- mon/*/{,device}/, N=1,2,3,... Can also be absolute path. If not given, lmstempHighest is used as both maximum and high alarm. For example, xosview*lmshigh1: 70 xosview*lmshigh2: temp1_crit_hyst xosview*lmslowN: filename or number Optional low alarm value or name of file from /sys/class/hw- mon/*/{,device}/, N=1,2,3,... Can also be absolute path. Default is 0. For example, xosview*lmslow1: 1.5 xosview*lmslow2: fan1_min xosview*lmsnameN: name Optional name of the sensor device to use when finding the file- name(s) given in lmstempN, lmshighN and lmslowN. See /sys/class/hw- mon/*/{,device}/name for the names of your sensors. This has no ef- fect to files given as absolute paths. For example, xosview*lmsname1: nct6779 xosview*lmsname2: radeon xosview*lmstempLabelN: string N-th label for above values, default is TMP. xosview*lmstempHighestN: number Override default lmstempHighest for meter N. xosview*lmstempUsedFormatN: (float, percent or autoscale) Override default lmstempUsedFormat for meter N. xosview*lmstempPriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the lmstemp meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. xosview*lmstempUsedFormat: (float, percent or autoscale) This resource tells xosview how to display "used" labels. The for- mats work as follows: float: Display the value as a floating point number. percent: Display the value as a percentage of the total. autoscale: Display the absolute value and automatically print the units (K, M, or G) as appropriate. ACPI Temperature Resources xosview*acpitemp: (True or False) If True then xosview will display a acpitemp meter. xosview*acpitempHighest: 100 Highest temp value displayed, default 100. If acpihighN is given, the value is read from there instead. xosview*acpitempActColor: color Color of actual temperature. xosview*acpitempHighColor: color Color above alarm temperature, also used to indicate alarm. xosview*acpitempIdleColor: color Color between actual and alarm temperatures. xosview*acpitempN: filename Name of temperature file from /proc/acpi/thermal_zone or /sys/de- vices/virtual/thermal. Note that the last directory part must be given, e.g. TZ0/temperature. Absolute path can also be used. xosview*acpihighN: filename Name of high value/trip point file from /proc/acpi/thermal_zone or /sys/devices/virtual/thermal, or an absolute path to one. xosview*acpitempLabelN: Labelstring N-th label for above temperatures, default is TMP. xosview*acpitempPriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the acpitemp meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. xosview*acpitempUsedFormat: (float, percent or autoscale) This resource tells xosview how to display "used" labels. The for- mats work as follows: float: Display the value as a floating point number. percent: Display the value as a percentage of the total. autoscale: Display the absolute value and automatically print the units (K, M, or G) as appropriate. Intel Core / AMD K8+ / VIA C7 Temperature Sensor Resources xosview*coretemp: (True or False) If True then xosview will display a coretemp meter. xosview*coretempHighest: 100 Highest temp value displayed, default 100. If CPU throttling temper- ature (tjMax) is supplied by the operating system, it is used in- stead. xosview*coretempHigh: number Value to use as alarm temperature, default is coretempHighest. If a usable value, such as the temperature for which maximum cooling is required, is supplied by the operating system, it is used instead. xosview*coretempActColor: color Color of actual temperature. xosview*coretempHighColor: color Color above alarm temperature, also used to indicate alarm. xosview*coretempIdleColor: color Color between actual and alarm temperatures. xosview*coretempDisplayType: (separate, average or maximum) This resource tells xosview how to display the CPU temperature. The formats work as follows: separate: Display one meter for each CPU core of a multi-core CPU. This is the default. average: Display the average of core temperatures of a multi-core CPU. On multi-socket machines, one meter per physical CPU is dis- played. maximum: Display the highest core temperature of a multi-core CPU. On multi-socket machines, one meter per physical CPU is dis- played. xosview*coretempPriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the coretemp meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. xosview*coretempUsedFormat: (float, percent or autoscale) This resource tells xosview how to display "used" labels. The for- mats work as follows: float: Display the value as a floating point number. percent: Display the value as a percentage of the total. autoscale: Display the absolute value and automatically print the units (K, M, or G) as appropriate. *BSD Sensor Resources xosview*bsdsensor: (True or False) If True then xosview will display a bsdsensor meter. xosview*bsdsensorHighest: number Highest value displayed. If not given, or too small, the meter will adjust to fit actual and alarm values. Can be overridden for any me- ter with bsdsensorHighestN. xosview*bsdsensorActColor: color Color of actual value. xosview*bsdsensorHighColor: color Color above high alarm value, also used to indicate alarm. xosview*bsdsensorLowColor: color Color of actual value, when it is below low alarm value. xosview*bsdsensorIdleColor: color Color between actual and high alarm values. xosview*bsdsensorN: name.type xosview*bsdsensorHighN: name.type xosview*bsdsensorLowN: name.type These define where the actual value, high alarm value and low alarm value for meter N=1,2,3,... will be read from. The name is the sen- sor driver, and type is the wanted value. Both alarm values are op- tional, and can also be given as static numerical values. You can find the correct pair for OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD with sy- stat command, e.g. xosview*bsdsensor1: it0.temp1 xosview*bsdsensorHigh1: 100 On NetBSD, you can find the driver name with envstat command. Value name for the actual reading is typically 'cur-value' and for high alarm 'critical-max' and for low alarm 'critical-min', e.g. xosview*bsdsensor2: coretemp0.cur-value xosview*bsdsensorHigh2: coretemp0.critical-max For all possible NetBSD value names, refer to envstat source code. FreeBSD has no usable sensor drivers as of version 9.0. However, ACPI thermal zones can be used by defining the sysctl node below hw.acpi.thermal, e.g. xosview*bsdsensor1: tz0.temperature xosview*bsdsensorHigh1: tz0._CRT ACPI thermal zones can be used like this on DragonFly BSD as well. xosview*bsdsensorLabelN: string N-th label for above meters, default is SENN. xosview*bsdsensorHighestN: number Override default bsdsensorHighest for meter N. xosview*bsdsensorUsedFormatN: (float, percent or autoscale) Override default bsdsensorUsedFormat for meter N. xosview*bsdsensorPriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the bsdsensor meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. xosview*bsdsensorUsedFormat: (float, percent or autoscale) This resource tells xosview how to display "used" labels. The for- mats work as follows: float: Display the value as a floating point number. percent: Display the value as a percentage of the total. autoscale: Display the absolute value and automatically print the units (K, M, or G) as appropriate. Battery Meter Resources xosview*battery: (True or False) If True then xosview will display a battery meter. Linux users will need to have APM or ACPI support in their kernels for this to work. For both APM and ACPI, xosview shows the status/sum of all batter- ies. Additionally - the legend text gets changed/adjusted to re- flect the current state (charging/low/critical/etc.) of the bat- tery/batteries. xosview*batteryLeftColor: color This is the color that will be used to show the amount of battery power left. xosview*batteryUsedColor: color This is the color that will be used to show the amount of battery power used. xosview*batteryChargeColor: color This is the color that will be used as 'left' - if the batteries get charged. xosview*batteryFullColor: color This is the color that will be used as 'left' - if the batteries are fully charged. APM and ACPI does provide this info, but not all ma- chines actually do so. xosview*batteryLowColor: color APM only - the 'left' color that will indicate a low battery. De- pends on the machine - e.g. below 25% remaining capacity. xosview*batteryCritColor: color APM case: the 'left' color if APM indicates 'critical' state. (less than 5%) ACPI case: the 'left' color if the remaining capacity is below the alarm value. (which can be set by the user in /proc/acpi/battery/BAT[01]/alarm ) xosview*batteryNoneColor: color If no battery is present - or all batteries get removed (while on AC). xosview*batteryPriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the battery meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. xosview*batteryUsedFormat: (float, percent or autoscale) This resource tells xosview how to display "used" labels. The for- mats work as follows: float: Display the value as a floating point number. percent: Display the value as a percentage of the total. autoscale: Display the absolute value and automatically print the units (K, M, or G) as appropriate. Wireless Meter Resources xosview*wireless: (True or False) If True then xosview will display the link quality of each wireless connection. Note that the graph will *never* show up, if you don't have any wireless devices, or no wireless extensions in the kernel (/proc/net/wireless). Default is true. xosview*PoorQualityColor: color This is the color for the quality field when between 0 and 6. xosview*FairQualityColor: color This is the color for the quality field when between 7 and 14. xosview*GoodQualityColor: color This is the color for the quality field when higher than 14. xosview*wirelessUsedColor: color This is the background color. xosview*wirelessPriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the wireless meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. xosview*wirelessDecay: (True or False) If True then the wireless meter will be split vertically in two. The top half will show the instantaneous state, while the bottom half will display a decaying average of the state. xosview*wirelessUsedFormat: (float, percent or autoscale) This resource tells xosview how to display "used" labels. The for- mats work as follows: float: Display the value as a floating point number. percent: Display the value as a percentage of the total. autoscale: Display the absolute value and automatically print the units (K, M, or G) as appropriate. Disk Meter Resources xosview*disk: (True or False) If True then xosview will display a disk meter. xosview*diskInColor: color The disk meter will use this color to display the reads field. xosview*diskOutColor: color The disk meter will use this color to display the writes field. xosview*diskIdleColor: color The disk meter will use this color to display the idle field. xosview*diskBandwidth: bandwidth This number is used to specify the expected maximum bandwidth in bytes per second for the disk meter. xosview*diskWriteColor: color This color will be used for the linux meter to show writes. xosview*diskReadColor: color This color will be used for the linux meter to show reads. xosview*diskPriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the disk meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. xosview*diskDecay: (True or False) If True then the disk meter will be split vertically in two. The top half will show the instantaneous state, while the bottom half will display a decaying average of the state. xosview*diskGraph: (True or False) If this is set to True then the disk meter will be drawn as a hori- zontally scrolling bargraph showing the state value verses time. xosview*diskUsedFormat: (float, percent or autoscale) This resource tells xosview how to display "used" labels. The for- mats work as follows: float: Display the value as a floating point number. percent: Display the value as a percentage of the total. autoscale: Display the absolute value and automatically print the units (K, M, or G) as appropriate. RAID Meter Resources xosview*RAID: (True or False) If True then xosview will display a RAID meter. xosview*RAIDdevicecount: int Please enter your RAID device count (n) here or 0 if you don't have any supported RAID devices. xosview then will display n RAID state displays. xosview*RAIDdiskOnlineColor: color xosview*RAIDdiskFailureColor: color These colors will be used for indicating working/online or failed/offline disks. The order (from left to right) is the same as in /proc/mdstat. xosview*RAIDresyncdoneColor: color xosview*RAIDresynctodoColor: color xosview*RAIDresynccompleteColor: color If a resync/rebuild of the RAID array is in progress, the "done" and "todo" colors will be used. If no rebuild/resync is running, then the "complete" color will be shown. xosview*RAIDPriority: priority This number (which must be an integer >= 1) sets the number of tenths of a second that the RAID meter waits between updates. A value of 1 has xosview update the meter 10 times per second (the fastest). A value of 600 would cause xosview to update the meter once a minute. xosview*RAIDUsedFormat: (float, percent or autoscale) This resource tells xosview how to display "used" labels. The for- mats work as follows: float: Display the value as a floating point number. percent: Display the value as a percentage of the total. autoscale: Display the absolute value and automatically print the units (K, M, or G) as appropriate. OBTAINING This version of xosview is distributed from the following site: http://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/xosview/ AUTHORS Mike Romberg <mike.romberg@noaa.gov> Original author, Linux and HPUX ports. Brian Grayson <bgrayson@netbsd.org> NetBSD port and most of the nice enhancements for version 1.4, ini- tial work on FreeBSD port. Scott McNab <jedi@tartarus.uwa.edu.au> Added the scrolling graph mode. Tom Pavel <pavel@slac.stanford.edu> Most of the FreeBSD support, more resource-handling improvements. Greg Onufer <exodus@cheers.bungi.com> SunOS port. Stefan Eilemann <eilemann@gmail.com> IRIX 6.5 port. Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com> FreeBSD libdevstat-based diskmeter support. David W. Talmage <talmage@jefferson.cmf.nrl.navy.mil> Added battery-meter support to NetBSD. Oleg Safiullin <form@openbsd.org> OpenBSD interrupt-meter support. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> Originator of the loadmeter. Massimiliano Ghilardi <ghilardi@cibs.sns.it> Linux pagemeter. Carsten Schabacker <cschaba@spock.central.de> Made extensions to the serial-meter. Paal Beyer <pbeyer@online.no> Ported the linux memstat kernel module to linux-2.1 Jerome Forissier <forissier@isia.cma.fr> Author of the Linux SMP kernel patch which xosview uses to display meters for each CPU. Tomer Klainer <mandor@cs.huji.ac.il> Initial port to BSDI. Arno Augustin <Arno.Augustin@3SOFT.de> Solaris disk and network meters. Alberto BARSELLA <ishark@lsh01.univ-lille1.fr> Fixes for linux diskmeter + ip_chains support Thomas Waldmann <ThomasWaldmann@gmx.de> Linux raid meter, bitfieldmeter. Many cosmetic fixes. Leopold Toetsch <lt@toetsch.at> Linux lms temp meter. David O'Brien <obrien@nuxi.com> FreeBSD 4.* updates, and a few other suggestions. Christos Zoulas <christos@netbsd.org> C++ standard compliance and other NetBSD fixes. Tim Ehlers <tehlers@gwdg.de> Wireless Link-Meter for Linux. Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk> Bug fixes and general caretaking. Tomi Tapper <tomi.o.tapper@student.jyu.fi> Temperature sensor, and FreeBSD updates. Raymond S Brand (rsbx@acm.org) Misc fixes. And many others who have sent in small fixes and improvements. 3rd Berkeley Distribution XOSVIEW(1)
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