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announcing Portato v1.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Wed Sep 6 17:14:35 1995
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 20:48:56 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Peter Heist (skIp) <heistp@rpi.edu>
Subject: announcing Portato v1.0
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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I have uploaded Portato version 1.0 to sunsite.unc.edu in
the Incoming directory. It will probably be in system/Status relatively
soon. Files uploaded:
portato-1.0.tar.gz (9592 bytes)
portato-1.0.lsm (665 bytes)
portato-1.0.README (4163 bytes)
INTRODUCTION
------------
Portato is a simple program which can provide glitz (and also be
extremely useful.) It uses the parallel port in conjunction with attached
LEDs to provide status information about your Linux box. For those obsessed
with knowing the status of things at all times (as I sometimes am) this
program can be a very good companion.
FEATURES
--------
Portato can monitor the following events:
o user, system, nice, and idle cpu
o hard drive activity
o interrupts 1-15 (useful for monitoring keyboards, serial ports,
ethernet cards, sound cards, drive controllers, and any
other interrupt driven devices)
o network receive, transmit, (or both), and collisions on any device
o swap pages being brought in, out, or both
Portato is designed to try to use as little of your cpu time as
possible. It periodically checks values from the /proc filesystem (in
particular /proc/stat and /proc/net/dev) to determine if a specified
activity has occured. You can designate in the configuration file how often
these updates occur. With a reasonable update rate (20-30 milliseconds on
my 486-40 is reasonable) you will not even notice that Portato is running,
and the CPU percentage it uses will be around 0.0 - 0.1%.
Try it out and enjoy the lights. Ooooh, lights!
Peter (skIp) Heist (heistp@rpi.edu)
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Title: Portato
Version: 1.0
Entered-date: Sep 4, 1995
Description: Configurable monitor which uses the proc filesystem to show
different system events such as interrupts, cpu activity,
swapping, disk access, and network activity via LED's on
the parallel port.
Keywords: portato monitor stat led proc lights
Author: heistp@rpi.edu (Peter Heist)
Maintained-by:
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Status
9kB portato-1.0.tar.gz
Alternate-site:
Original-site:
Platform:
Copying-policy: Freely distributable. See README file for details.
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