atop
atop is an open source, ASCII full-screen performance monitor,
similar to
the top command, but atop only shows the active system-resources and
processes, and the deviations since the previous interval.
atop shows the occupation of the most critical hardware
resources (from a performance point of view) on system level, i.e. cpu,
memory, disk and network.
atop also shows which processes are responsible for the
indicated load with respect to cpu- and memory load on process level.
Disk load is
shown if per process "storage accounting" is active in the kernel or if
the kernel patch `cnt' has been installed. Network load is only shown
per process if the kernel patch `cnt' has been installed.
Every interval (default: 10 seconds) information is shown
about the
resource occupation on system level (cpu, memory, disks and network
layers), followed by a list of processes which have been active during
the last interval (note that all processes that were unchanged during
the last interval are not shown, unless the key 'a' has been pressed).
If the list of active processes does not entirely fit on the screen,
only the top of the list is shown (sorted in order of activity).
The intervals are repeated till the number of samples (specified as
command argument) is reached, or till the key 'q' is pressed in inter‐
active mode.
atop 1.27-3
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Price
Free to download
Size
0.1MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Gerlof Langeveld
Website
www.atoptool.nl
System Requirements
ncurses
Support
Sites:
Documentation
Selected
Reviews:
LinuxPlanet
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Features include:
- Resource consumption by all processes
- Utilization of all relevant resources
- Permanent logging of resource utilization
- Highlight critical resources
- Scalable window width
- Resource consumption by individual threads
- Watch activity only
- Watch deviations only
- Accumulated process activity per user
- Accumulated process activity per program
- Network activity per process
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Last Updated Friday, September 28 2012 @ 02:43 PM EDT
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