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NAME

6       nmon - systems administrator, tuner, benchmark tool.
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DESCRIPTION

9       This  manual page documents briefly the nmon command.  This manual page
10       was written for the Debian distribution because  the  original  program
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13       nmon is is a systems administrator, tuner, benchmark tool.  It can dis‐
14       play the CPU, memory, network, disks (mini  graphs  or  numbers),  file
15       systems, NFS, top processes, resources (Linux version & processors) and
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OPTIONS

19       nmon follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options start‐
20       ing  with  two dashes (`-').  nmon [-h] [-s <seconds>] [-c <count>] [-f
21       -d <disks> -t -r <name>] [-x] A summary of options is included below.
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23       -h     FULL help information
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25              Interactive-Mode: read startup banner and type: "h" once  it  is
26              running For Data-Collect-Mode (-f)
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28       -f            spreadsheet output format [note: default -s300 -c288]
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31       -s <seconds>  between refreshing the screen [default 2]
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35       -d <disks>    to increase the number of disks [default 256]
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AUTHOR

42       nmon was written by Nigel Griffiths <nag@uk.ibm.com>
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44       This  manual  page  was  written  by  Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iucu‐
45       lano.it>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
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50nmon                              August 2009                          NMON(1)