1saidar(1)                   General Commands Manual                  saidar(1)
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NAME

6       saidar - a curses-based tool for viewing system statistics
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SYNOPSIS

9       saidar [-d delay] [-c] [-v] [-h]
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DESCRIPTION

12       saidar  is a curses-based tool for viewing the system statistics avail‐
13       able through libstatgrab. Statistics include CPU, processes, load, mem‐
14       ory, swap, network I/O, disk I/O, and file system information.
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OPTIONS

17       The following options are supported.
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19       -d DELAY
20              Wait DELAY seconds between updates (default 3)
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22       -c     Enables coloured output
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24       -v     Prints the version number
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26       -h     Display help and exits
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COLOURED OUTPUT

29       When  the  -c  option  is used saidar uses colours to display the data.
30       Each area has a different colour to  distinguish  it  from  the  nearby
31       fields.  Bold  and  reverse  video  effects are used to emphasis fields
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34       The load average figures are displayed in  bold  when  they're  notably
35       (greater  that  1)  different  to  each other. This purely shows that a
36       change in the load is occuring.
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38       When CPU usage goes over 60% it will be displayed in bold.  At 90%  the
39       field  is  displayed using reverse video. Likewise for memory, swap and
40       disk usage at 75% and 90%. Zombie processes are also highlighted.
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42       Other values (paging, disk I/O and network I/O) are not highlighted due
43       to the nature of the values; it's not easy to determine what thresholds
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SEE ALSO

47       statgrab(1) statgrab(3)
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AUTHORS

50       This man page was derived from the man page written by  Bartosz  Fenski
51       for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
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WEBSITE

54       http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
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58i-scream                 $Date: 2006/11/30 23:42:42 $                saidar(1)