sysmeter(1)
sysmeter - display system performance values
As shipped in IRIX 6.5.7. Unchanged since IRIX 6.5.
NAME sysmeter - display system performance values SYNOPSIS sysmeter [ -s samp ] [ -a avg ] [ -h name ] [ -d win ] [ -g ht ] [ -x x-cord ] [ -y y-cord ] [ -r row ] [ -m ] [ -i bk,cbg,avg,txt,chg ] [ -v value value ... ] DESCRIPTION sysmeter opens a window and displays various system performance values collected from either local machine, or any remote machine that implements the rstat version 3 protocol. When sysmeter starts, it makes a connection to the rstatd(1M) daemon on the target machine and periodically collects data from the daemon. Various performance data can be selected for display. Each selected performance value will be displayed within one sub-window in either of the two styles: bar chart or strip chart. In both formats, the y-axis represents the value collected. In the strip chart, the x-axis represents the time. The default option is to collect CPU usage data on local machine for every 2 seconds with window width equals to 120 seconds. The options can be set either from command line or by clicking the left or right mouse button. The average of performance values, if selected, are displayed as shaded areas in the strip chart format while in the bar chart format, the values are displayed in the rear bars. When resizing the window, sysmeter always re-adjusts the window size for the best possible shape to fit all the selected values in order to prevent the distortion of the graphics. If the width of the window is wide enough, sysmeter will display the hostname, sample time, averaging time and display window width in the window title. OPTIONS -s samp Sets the sample time to samp seconds. -a avg Sets the averaging time to avg seconds. If this option is not supplied, sysmeter will not display the averaging value. -h name Selects the host specified by name as the target machine for performance data collection. -d win Sets the window width to win seconds. This number divided by the sample time is equivalent to the number of samples appears in one sub-window. This option is meaningful only with the strip chart format. -g ht Sets the sub-window height to ht pixels. The default height is 50 pixels. -x x-cord Sets the X coordinate of the left lower corner of the window to x-cord. Since sysmeter always re-adjust window size and location on a bad re-locating or resizing, a large x coordinate close to the left end of screen will automatically be reduced as needed. -y y-cord Sets the y coordinate of the left lower corner of the window to y-cord. If both X and Y coordinates are provided, sysmeter will automatically open a window without user intervention. -r row Sets the number of rows of sub-windows to be row. The default is two columns. -m selects the bar chart format instead of the default strip chart format. -i bk,cbg,avg,txt,chg These values specify the five colors used by the displays, separated by commas. The values are the color map indices of the background, chart background, averaged area, text and change-parameters colors. The defaults are 15, 12, 1, 4, and 10, respectively. -v value Selects performance values to be displayed: all display all of the following values cpu percent of CPU being utilized page paging activity in pages per second swap jobs swapped per second intr number of device interrupts per second disk disk traffic in transfers per second cntxt number of context switches per second load average of number of runnable jobs over the last minute times 1024 pkts total of input and output network packets per second inpkts input network packets per second outpkts output network packets per second colls collisions per second detected on the network errs errors per second when receiving packets When sysmeter is running, you can move the mouse cursor into the window, press and hold the right button to get the pop-up menu. This menu has the options: cpu, page, swap, intr, disk, cntxt, load, pkts, inpkts, outpkts, colls, errs, display-average, change-param, style, and exit. The entries corresponding to each performance values specified in -v option are toggle switches. If you move the cursor to any one of those entries and releases the right button, sysmeter will toggle between displaying or removing the sub-window. If no parameters are specified when sysmeter is started, it will display the: cpu usage by default. The display-average and style selections are also toggle switches. When change-parameter entry is selected, a parameter changing panel will appear in the left lower corner of the window and the display activity is frozen although sysmeter is still collecting data packets internally. If the window is too narrow, only a partial view of the panel will show up. You can fix this problem by reshaping the window. Inside the panel, there is a parameter selection location marked with three curly arrows. Moving the cursor to this area and click the left button, the panel will switch among the three changeable parameters: sample interval, averaging period, and window width. After moving the cursor to the up-pointed triangle under the ruler, pressing, holding and moving the left button along the ruler will change the selected parameter to the number indicated in the small window above the ruler. The ruler is exponentially increased to maximum of 7200 seconds (2 hours). Once the change is made, moving the cursor to the location marked with ok and pressing the left button will update the values. EXAMPLE The following command will automatically display the local system performance data on the top of the screen. sysmeter -x 50 -y 900 -g 50 -v all -a 120 -d 300 -s 5 -r 1 SEE ALSO rstatd(1M), rpcinfo(1) BUGS The maximum number allowed to be displayed on the y-axis of a sub-window is 8192. If a value exceeds this limit, the display will be truncated to 8192.