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LavaPS
'LavaPS' is an interactive process-tracking program that presents a small amount of important information in a graphical analog form (as opposed to lots of information presented digitally). It runs in the background and quickly and simply gives you a rough idea of what's happening.
Each blob represents a process. Blob size is proportional to memory usage, and movement is proportional to CPU usage. Color is a combination of program name (which decided the hue) and time since the program last ran (which decides saturation): things that haven't run in a while are stationary and dark, while things that run a lot are bright and moving. A popup box gives more information about a process. Clicking the left button brings up the popup, the right button brings up a control menu.
Last updated 1 Jul, 2004
About
Leadership
- John Heidemann - Maintainer
Requirements
- Gcc 2.8 or later (Build Prerequisite)
- C++ (Build Prerequisite)
- STL (Build Prerequisite)
- Tcl/Tk 8.x *or* Gnome/GTK 2.2 (Build Prerequisite)
Related Projects
Atop , Bubbling Load Monitor Applet, Procman, Psmon, Sysstat, gPS, procps, ps-watcher
Versions
2.4
2.4 stable released 2003-09-26
- Released: 26 Sep, 2003
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/LAVAPS/lavap...
- Licenses: GPLv2
- Interfaces: X Window System
User Community and Support
User manpage available in HTML format from http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/LAVAPS/lavaps_man.html