On Wednesday 10 February 2010 09:11:01 Denys Vlasenko wrote: > No need to parse anything. There is an applet (which you found "useless" > some years ago) which makes this sort of monitoring easy: > > # nmeter '%t %c mem %m free %[mf] processes %[pn]' > 16:10:05 UU........ mem 526m free 1.4g processes 276 > 16:10:06 U......... mem 526m free 1.4g processes 276 > 16:10:07 .......... mem 526m free 1.4g processes 276 > ...
This functionality is built into the stock version of top, but nobody ever bothered to make a UI to access it from the command line in busybox's version. Instead, busybox has a utility that isn't in stock Linux distros, which duplicates functionality from top but which requires learning a new printf- like syntax to make it work. Not my first choice of a design approach, no. Still, as long as it's already there that guy might find it useful... Rob -- Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox