Annotation of 43BSD/contrib/X/man/xload.1, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: .TH XLOAD 1 "18 August 1985" "X Version 10"
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: xload - X window system load average display
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B xload
                      6: [ option ] ...
                      7: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      8: .I xload 
                      9: continuously displays the system load average under the
                     10: .I X
                     11: window system.
                     12: .I xload
                     13: creates a window in which the load average is represented as a bar graph
                     14: with n divisions. Each division represents one unit of load average.
                     15: The name of the host is displayed in the upper left corner.
                     16: .PP
                     17: .I xload
                     18: understands the following options:
                     19: .PP
                     20: .TP 8
                     21: .B \-bd \fIcolor\fP
                     22: Specify the border color.  On monochrome displays, should be ``white'', ``black'',
                     23: or ``gray''; gray is the default.
                     24: .PP
                     25: .TP 8
                     26: .B \-bg \fIcolor\fP
                     27: Specify the background color.  On monochrome displays, should be ``white'' or
                     28: ``black''; black is the default.
                     29: .PP
                     30: .TP 8
                     31: .B \-bw \fIpixels\fP
                     32: Specify the width in pixels of the border around the
                     33: .I xload
                     34: window. The default value is 3 pixels.
                     35: .PP
                     36: .TP 8
                     37: .B \-fg \fIcolor\fP
                     38: Specify the graph color.  On monochrome displays, should be ``white'' or ``black'';
                     39: white is the default.
                     40: .PP
                     41: .TP 8
                     42: .B \-fn \fIfontname\fP
                     43: The hostname will be displayed in the specified font (if none
                     44: is specified, this defaults to 6x10).
                     45: .PP
                     46: .TP 8
                     47: .B \-hl \fIcolor\fP
                     48: Specify the hostname and scale line color; the default is to make it the same
                     49: as the graph color.
                     50: .PP
                     51: .TP 8
                     52: .B \-rv
                     53: Cause
                     54: .I xload
                     55: to produce all output in black-on-white instead of white-on-black.
                     56: .PP
                     57: .TP 8
                     58: .B \-fw
                     59: Cause
                     60: .I xload
                     61: to produce all output in white-on-black instead of black-on-white.
                     62: .PP
                     63: .TP 8
                     64: .B \-scale \fIinteger\fP
                     65: Specify the minimum number of divisions on the graph (default 1).
                     66: .I Xload
                     67: is free to use more divisions if the load gets too high to display,
                     68: but it will never use fewer divisions than this.
                     69: .PP
                     70: .TP 8
                     71: .B \-update \fIseconds\fP
                     72: Specify the frequency in seconds with which
                     73: .I xload
                     74: updates its display (except if the
                     75: .I xload
                     76: window is obscured and then exposed, immediate redisplay occurs).  The default
                     77: update frequency is 5 seconds.  Specification of a frequency
                     78: less than 5 seconds is ignored and the default frequency is used instead.
                     79: .PP
                     80: .TP 8
                     81: .B =\fIgeometry\fP
                     82: The load graph window is created with the specified
                     83: size and location
                     84: determined
                     85: by the supplied geometry specification.
                     86: See \fIX(1)\fP for a full explanation.
                     87: .PP
                     88: .TP 8
                     89: .B \[\fIhost\fP]:\[\fIdisplay\fP]
                     90: Normally,
                     91: .I xload
                     92: gets the host and display number to use from the environment
                     93: variable ``DISPLAY''.  Either or both can be specified with this option.
                     94: .I host
                     95: specifies which machine to create the
                     96: .I xload
                     97: window on, and
                     98: .I display
                     99: specifies the display number.
                    100: For example,
                    101: ``mit-grape-nehi:0'' creates an
                    102: .I xload
                    103: on display 0 on machine mit-grape-nehi. Either value can be defaulted
                    104: by omission but ``:'' is necessary to specify one or both.
                    105: .SH X DEFAULTS
                    106: .PP
                    107: .TP 8
                    108: .B Foreground
                    109: Set the graph color.
                    110: .PP
                    111: .TP 8
                    112: .B Background
                    113: Set the background color.
                    114: .PP
                    115: .TP 8
                    116: .B BodyFont
                    117: Set the hostname font.
                    118: .PP
                    119: .TP 8
                    120: .B Border
                    121: Set the internal border padding.
                    122: .PP
                    123: .TP 8
                    124: .B BorderColor
                    125: Set the border color.
                    126: .PP
                    127: .TP 8
                    128: .B BorderWidth
                    129: Set the border width of the window.
                    130: .PP
                    131: .TP 8
                    132: .B Highlight
                    133: Set the hostname and scale line color.
                    134: .PP
                    135: .TP 8
                    136: .B ReverseVideo
                    137: If ``on'', reverse the definition of foreground and background color.
                    138: .PP
                    139: .TP 8
                    140: .B Scale
                    141: Set the minimum scale.
                    142: .PP
                    143: .TP 8
                    144: .B Update
                    145: Set the update interval.
                    146: .SH ENVIRONMENT
                    147: DISPLAY - to get the default host and display number.
                    148: .SH SEE ALSO
                    149: X(10, xwm(1), X(8C), mem(4), select(2)
                    150: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
                    151: Unable to open display or create window. Unable to open /dev/kmem.
                    152: Unable to query window for dimensions. Various X errors.
                    153: .SH BUGS
                    154: .I xload
                    155: requires the ability to open and read /dev/kmem. On most systems, this requires
                    156: the suid bit set with root ownership or the sgid bit set and membership in 
                    157: the same group as /dev/kmem. 
                    158: .SH AUTHORS
                    159: K. Shane Hartman (MIT-LCS), Stuart A. Malone (MIT-LCS)
                    160: .br
                    161: Host name feature added by Jim Gettys (MIT-Athena).
                    162: Scale feature added by Bob Scheifler (MIT-LCS).
                    163: Automatic rescaling feature added by Stuart A. Malone (MIT-LCS).
                    164: .br
                    165: Copyright (c) 1985, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
                    166: .br
                    167: See X(1) for a complete copyright notice.

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