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Glances -- Eye on your system
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## Description
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Glances is a CLI curses based monitoring tools for both GNU/Linux and BSD.
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Glances uses the libstatgrab library to get information from your system.
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Glances is developed in Python and uses the python-statgrab lib.
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## Installation
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Glances use a standard GNU style installer:
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$ tar zxvf glances-v1.0.tar.gz
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$ cd glances
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$ ./configure
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$ make
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$ sudo make install
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Pre-requisites:
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* Python 2.6+ (not tested with Python 3)
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* python-statgrab 0.5+ (did not work with python-statgrab 0.5)
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Notes: The Debian Squeeze repos only include the python-statgrab 0.4.
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You had to install the version 0.5 using the following commands:
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$ sudo apt-get install libstatgrab-dev
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$ wget http://ftp.uk.i-scream.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/pystatgrab/pystatgrab-0.5.tar.gz
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$ tar zxvf pystatgrab-0.5.tar.gz
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$ cd pystatgrab-0.5/
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$ ./setup.py build
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$ sudo ./setup.py install
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## Running
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Easy:
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$ glances.py
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## User guide
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By default, stats are refrsh every second, to change this setting, you can
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use the -t option. For exemple to set the refrech rate to 5 seconds:
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$ glances.py -t 5
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Importants stats are colored:
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* GREEN: stat counter is < 50%
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* BLUE: stat counter is > 50% and < 70%
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* MAGENTA: stat counter is > 70% and < 90%
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* RED: stat counter is > 90%
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When Glances is running, you can press:
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* 'a' to set the automatic mode. The process list is sorted automatically
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If CPU > 70%, sort by process CPU consomption
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If MEM > 70%, sort by process size
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* 'c' the processes list is sorted by CPU consomption
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* 'm' the processes list is sorted by process size
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* 'q' Exit
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## Limitation
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The current version of the python-statgrab API can not retrieve the file
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system statistics.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libstatgrab/+bug/886783
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## Todo
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You are welcome to contribute to this software.
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* Packaging for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat, BSD...
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* Check the needed Python library in the configure.ac
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* Add file system stats when the python-statgrab is corrected
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* Add a user guide window
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