Nanotop is now maintained by Michael Wojciechowski

go to: <http://floppyfw.wojci.dk/nanotop.phtml> for new packages.


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hello thomas,

thanks for your answer. now nanotop works under glib2 2.0.

nanotop is a program with display 3 interesting things:
a) cpu usage
b) memory consumption
c) send and receice speed on the external interface
(i'm always interested in things that happens on one of my boxes. that's
one of the reason why i use ffw ;-)

may be you find it usefull.

it appears in a single line and looks like:
CPU: [===---    ]   MEM:   9.1MB   LAN:  13.4kB/s(rcv) 634.0 B/s(snd)
0(err)
and will be updated every second.

i've made a small package to install nanotop into /bin on the ffw an put it
into my package directory.

a very small explanation:

CPU: average of cpu usage over the last second. '=' means cpu_system, '+'
cpu_nice (never seen on my box) and '-' cpu_user taken from /proc/stat
MEM: diplays the used memory from /proc/meminfo
LAN: shows us the received and send bytes from the last second on the
interface specified as parameter 1 or eth0: if omitted. error counts the
reported read and write-errors from /proc/net/dev. don't forget the ':' at
the end. the specified interface must match with on from /proc/net/dev or
you will get no data.

There is a second parameter: if you specify it (all the same but use the
two charater '\r' for further extensions) nanotop will do no linefeed.

USAGE: nanotop [laninterface: [\r]]

e.g. nanotop eth1:
e.g. nanotop ${OUTSIDE_DEV}: \r
e.g. .....


what is nanotop NOT:
no SMP support
no gracefull termination key (use ^C)
no usage message
no cmdline switches

what is nanotop:
small, effectively, cool ;-)
it's free

mike

(See attached file: nanotop.bz2)