.TH XLOAD 1 "18 August 1985" "X Version 10"
xload - X window system load average display
continuously displays the system load average under the
creates a window in which the load average is represented as a bar graph
with n divisions. Each division represents one unit of load average.
The name of the host is displayed in the upper left corner.
understands the following options:
Specify the border color. On monochrome displays, should be ``white'', ``black'',
or ``gray''; gray is the default.
Specify the background color. On monochrome displays, should be ``white'' or
``black''; black is the default.
Specify the width in pixels of the border around the
window. The default value is 3 pixels.
Specify the graph color. On monochrome displays, should be ``white'' or ``black'';
The hostname will be displayed in the specified font (if none
is specified, this defaults to 6x10).
Specify the hostname and scale line color; the default is to make it the same
to produce all output in black-on-white instead of white-on-black.
to produce all output in white-on-black instead of black-on-white.
Specify the minimum number of divisions on the graph (default 1).
is free to use more divisions if the load gets too high to display,
but it will never use fewer divisions than this.
.B \-update \fIseconds\fP
Specify the frequency in seconds with which
updates its display (except if the
window is obscured and then exposed, immediate redisplay occurs). The default
update frequency is 5 seconds. Specification of a frequency
less than 5 seconds is ignored and the default frequency is used instead.
The load graph window is created with the specified
by the supplied geometry specification.
See \fIX(1)\fP for a full explanation.
.B \[\fIhost\fP]:\[\fIdisplay\fP]
gets the host and display number to use from the environment
variable ``DISPLAY''. Either or both can be specified with this option.
specifies which machine to create the
specifies the display number.
``mit-grape-nehi:0'' creates an
on display 0 on machine mit-grape-nehi. Either value can be defaulted
by omission but ``:'' is necessary to specify one or both.
Set the background color.
Set the internal border padding.
Set the border width of the window.
Set the hostname and scale line color.
If ``on'', reverse the definition of foreground and background color.
DISPLAY - to get the default host and display number.
X(10, xwm(1), X(8C), mem(4), select(2)
Unable to open display or create window. Unable to open /dev/kmem.
Unable to query window for dimensions. Various X errors.
requires the ability to open and read /dev/kmem. On most systems, this requires
the suid bit set with root ownership or the sgid bit set and membership in
the same group as /dev/kmem.
K. Shane Hartman (MIT-LCS), Stuart A. Malone (MIT-LCS)
Host name feature added by Jim Gettys (MIT-Athena).
Scale feature added by Bob Scheifler (MIT-LCS).
Automatic rescaling feature added by Stuart A. Malone (MIT-LCS).
Copyright (c) 1985, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
See X(1) for a complete copyright notice.