Manual: xload

XLOAD(1)					   General Commands Manual					    XLOAD(1)

NAME
       xload - system load average display for X

SYNOPSIS
       xload	 [-toolkitoption ...] [-scale integer] [-update seconds]
	       [-hl color] [-highlight color]  [-remote host]
	       [-jumpscroll pixels] [-label string] [-nolabel] [-lights]

DESCRIPTION
       The xload program displays a periodically updating histogram of the system load average.

OPTIONS
       Xload  accepts  all  of the standard X Toolkit command line options (see X(7)).	The order of the options is unimpor‐
       tant.  xload also accepts the following additional options:

       -hl color or -highlight color
	       This option specifies the color of the scale lines.

       -jumpscroll pixels
	       The number of pixels to shift the graph to the left when the graph reaches the right edge of the window.	 The
	       default value is 1/2 the width of the current window.  Smooth scrolling can be achieved by setting it to 1.

       -label string
	       The string to put into the label above the load average.

       -nolabel
	       If this command line option is specified then no label will be displayed above the load graph.

       -lights When specified, this option causes xload to display the current load average by using the keyboard leds;	 for
	       a load average of n, xload lights the first n keyboard leds.  This option turns off the usual screen display.

       -scale integer
	       This  option  specifies	the minimum number of tick marks in the histogram, where one division represents one
	       load average point.  If the load goes above this number, xload will create more divisions, but it will  never
	       use fewer than this number.  The default is 1.

       -update seconds
	       This option specifies the interval in seconds at which xload updates its display.  The minimum amount of time
	       allowed between updates is 1 second.  The default is 10.

       -remote host
	       This option tells xload to display the load of host instead of localhost. Xload gets the information from the
	       rwhod database and consequently requires rwhod to be executing both on localhost and host.

RESOURCES
       In  addition to the resources available to each of the widgets used by xload there is one resource defined by the ap‐
       plication itself.

       showLabel (class Boolean)
	       If False then no label will be displayed.

WIDGETS
       In order to specify resources, it is useful to know the hierarchy of the widgets which compose xload.  In  the  nota‐
       tion below, indentation indicates hierarchical structure.  The widget class name is given first, followed by the wid‐
       get instance name.

       XLoad  xload
	       Paned  paned
		       Label  label
		       StripChart  load

ENVIRONMENT
       DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.

       XENVIRONMENT
	       to  get	the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER prop‐
	       erty.

FILES
       /etc/X11/app-defaults/XLoad
	      specifies required resources

SEE ALSO
       X(7), xrdb(1), mem(4), Athena StripChart Widget.

BUGS
       On older platforms, this program may require the ability to open and read the special system file  /dev/kmem.   Sites
       that  do	 not allow general access to this file may need to make xload belong to the same group as /dev/kmem and turn
       on the set group id permission flag.

       Reading the load average is inherently non-portable.  Therefore, the routine used to read  it  (get_load.c)  must  be
       ported to each new operating system.

AUTHORS
       K. Shane Hartman (MIT-LCS) and Stuart A. Malone (MIT-LCS);
       with  features added by Jim Gettys (MIT-Athena), Bob Scheifler (MIT-LCS), Tony Della Fera (MIT-Athena), and Chris Pe‐
       terson (MIT-LCS).

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