PROCMETER3_MODULES(1)

NAME

procmeter3_modules - The modules that are used by the procmeter3, procmeter3-xaw, gprocmeter3, procmeter3-gtk1, procmeter3-gtk2, procmeter3-log and procmeter3-lcd programs.

DESCRIPTION

The ProcMeter3 programs provide a framework that allows displaying of information in various formats. The collection of the data to be displayed is performed by a set of loadable modules.

MODULES

The modules that are provided with the program are the following:

APM Advanced Power Management information. These outputs are only available if you have configured the Linux kernel to have the APM feature and you have the appropriate hardware. The outputs can tell you the amount of time remaining and the state of charge of the battery.

Biff
    Monitors the e-mail inbox (in /var/spool/mail/<username> or /var/mail/<username> ) and indicates the number of e-mails that are waiting and the size of the inbox. The options parameter in the .procmeterrc file can be used to specify an alternate filename to use for the inbox.

Date_Time
    The current date and time and the amount of time since the system was last booted. Different outputs are available that allow the format of the date and time information to be changed. For the time outputs the options parameter in the .procmeterrc file can be set to 12 to indicate that a 12 hour format with AM/PM is to be used.

DiskUsage
    Shows the percentage of the disk that is used and the amount of free space for each of the local disks that it finds are mounted or can be mounted when the program starts. Extra disks can be passed as options using the options parameter in the .procmeterrc file to contain a space separated list of mount points.

LogFile
    Monitors the size and number of lines and the rate of increase of the size or number of lines in a set of log files. The options parameter in the .procmeterrc file contains a space separated list of log file names.

Memory
    The amount of memory that is used for programs, buffers, cache and the amount that is free. This is the same information that is available from the free program, but is available here as a graph, bar or as text.

Network
    The network devices and the amount of traffic on each of them. It will automatically pick up available devices when it starts. To specify others use the options parameter in the .procmeterrc configuration file which is a space separated list of device names.

Processes
    The load average and the number of processes running and starting.

ProcMeter
    Information about the procmeter program itself.

Sensors
    Information from hardware sensors for temperature and fan speed (simple version with fixed scaling).

FanSpeed
    Information from hardware sensors for fan speed (requires libsensors library installed but does read sensors.conf file for system customisation). The options parameter in the .procmeterrc file can be used to specify an alternate sensors configuration filename to use instead of the default. If this is used then it must be used in each of the FanSpeed, Temperature and Voltage modules.

Temperature
    Information from hardware sensors for temperature (requires libsensors library installed but does read sensors.conf file for system customisation). The options parameter in the .procmeterrc file can be used to specify an alternate sensors configuration filename to use instead of the default. If this is used then it must be used in each of the FanSpeed, Temperature and Voltage modules.

Voltage
    Information from hardware sensors for voltages (requires libsensors library installed but does read sensors.conf file for system customisation). The options parameter in the .procmeterrc file can be used to specify an alternate sensors configuration filename to use instead of the default. If this is used then it must be used in each of the FanSpeed, Temperature and Voltage modules.

Statistics
    Low level system statistics. For example CPU usage, context switches, interrupts, disk usage (before kernel 2.6), swapping and paging (before kernel 2.6).

Stat-CPU
    More detailed statistics about individual CPU usage including individual CPU usage for SMP machines.

Stat-Disk
    More detailed statistics about individual disk usage read and write. For older Linux kernels (before version 2.4) there is only support for up to 4 disks (this limit is set by the kernel and not by ProcMeter). For version 2.4 or later kernels the limit is removed and the disk names are picked up when the program starts. For version 2.6 or later kernels individual partitions are available. To force other disks to be listed use the options parameter in the .procmeterrc configuration file which is a space separated list of device names (e.g. /dev/fd0).

Stat-Intr
    More detailed statistics about individual interrupts including support for up to 256 interrupts. If fewer interrupts are wanted then the options parameter in the .procmeterrc configuration file can be set to the maximum number to display.

Uname
    The system information, hostname and Linux kernel version, the same as the output of the uname program.

Wireless
    Information about wireless network devices. It will automatically pick up available devices when it starts. To specify others use the options parameter in the .procmeterrc configuration file which is a space separated list of device names.

Longrun
    For systems with the Transmeta Crueso processor, information about longrun. Will not work unless the kernel is compiled with CPUID support, and /dev/cpu/0/cpuid must be readable by ProcMeter. (Allow regular users to access the cpuid device at your own risk!)

ACPI
    Advanced Configuration and Power Interface information. These outputs are only available if you have enabled ACPI in the Linux kernel and you have the appropriate hardware. ACPI can report various information about a system's battery, and may also have thermal outputs available.

VM_Statistics
    Low level system statistics about virtual memory (swapping and paging) for kernel version 2.6 where the information has moved from the Statistics section.

CPUInfo
    Information about the CPUs in the system, currently only the CPU speed in MHz.

SEE ALSO

procmeter3(1), procmeter3-xaw(1), gprocmeter3(1), procmeter3-gtk1(1), procmeter3-gtk2(1), procmeter3-log(1), procmeter3-lcd(1), procmeterrc(5).

biff(1) free(1) uname(1)

AUTHOR

Andrew M. Bishop 1998-2007