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@@ -45,6 +45,18 @@ Then install the latest Glances version: $ sudo pip install glances +### From PPA (Ubuntu/Mint) + +Thanks to Arnaud Hartmann, a PPA is available for the stable branch. + +To install it on your Ubuntu system: + + $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:arnaud-hartmann/glances-stable + $ sudo apt-get update + $ sudo apt-get install glances + +The PPA is available for Ubuntu version 9.10 to 12.04. + ### From source Get the latest version: @@ -94,23 +106,23 @@ When Glances is running, you can press: * 'd' Disable or enable the disk IO stats * 'f' Disable or enable the file system stats * 'l' Disable or enable the logs -* 'm' to sort the processes list by process size +* 'm' to sort the processes list by process MEM * 'n' Disable or enable the network interfaces stats +* 'p' to sort by process name * 'q' Exit ### Header  -The header shows the Glances version, the host name and the operating -system name, version and architecture. +The header shows the host name and the operating system name, version and architecture. ### CPU  The CPU states are shown as a percentage and for the configured refresh -time. +time. The total CPU usage is displayed on the first line. If user|kernel|nice CPU is < 50%, then status is set to "OK". @@ -129,7 +141,8 @@ average sum of the number of processes waiting in the run-queue plus the number currently executing over 1, 5, and 15 minute time periods." Glances gets the number of CPU cores to adapt the alerts. With Glances, -alerts on average load are only set on 5 and 15 mins. +alerts on average load are only set on 5 and 15 mins. The first line +also display the number of CPU core. If average load is < O.7*Core, then status is set to "OK". @@ -143,7 +156,7 @@ If average load is > 5*Core, then status is set to "CRITICAL".  -Glances uses tree columns: memory (RAM), swap and "real". +Glances uses tree columns: memory (RAM), "real" and swap. Real used memory is: used - cache. @@ -217,6 +230,25 @@ sorted by CPU of memory consumption. The number of processes in the list is adapted to the screen size. +* VIRT: Virtual memory size (in byte) +* REST: Amount of resident memory (in byte) +* CPU%: % of CPU used by the process +* MEM%: % of MEM used by the process +* PID: Process ID +* USER: Process user ID +* NI: Nice level of the process +* S: Process status + + R - Running + D - Sleeping (may not be interrupted) + S - Sleeping (may be interrupted) + T - Traced or stopped + Z - Zombie or "hung" process + +* TIME+: Cumulative CPU time used +* NAME: Process name or command line + + ### Logs  @@ -237,7 +269,7 @@ There is one line per alert with the following information:  -Glances displays a caption and the current time/date. +Glances displays the current time/date and access to the embeded help screen. ## Localisation @@ -251,6 +283,6 @@ i18n_espanol_generate.sh You are welcome to contribute to this software. -* Packaging for Debian, Ubuntu, BSD... -* Check the needed Python library in the configure.ac -* Add file system stats when the python-statgrab is corrected +* Code optimization +* Port to FreeBSD and Mac OS X +* Documentation for HTML and CVS export option |