mgrload(1L)

NAME
mgrload - Graph of system load average

SYNOPSIS
mgrload [-x<pos>] [-y<pos>] [-l<pixels>] [-w<pixels>]

DESCRIPTION
Mgrload uses the loadavgd daemon to extract information from the kernel to determine the current cpu load. The load is represented as a floating point number greater than or equal to zero and represents the average number of processes which were on the run queue during the past 60 seconds. Mgrload represents this data as a scrolling bar graph with each bar representing the load during a 60 second interval. The vertical scale of the graph is dynamically adjusted to account for changing load average values. Horizontal lines are placed on the graph spaced at a value of 0.50 apart. Precise values for the displayed maximum, minimum and most recent load value can be shown using the menu available when the right mouse button is pressed. System information such as the host name is available by pressing the middle mouse button. This information can be useful when mgrload is run in a networked environment and several mgrloads are running to display load averages of remote systems. Additional funtions such as redrawing the graph and resetting all stored values are also available by pressing the right mouse button.

mgrload recognizes the following command line flags:

-x<pos>
    Starting x-coordinate of graph

-y<pos>
    Starting y-coordinate of graph

-l<pixels>
    Length of graph in pixels

-w<pixels>
    Width of graph in pixels

BUGS
If the shared memory segment which loadavgd creates is removed, mgrload will crash with a bus error.

Killing loadavgd is a bad thing to do.

AUTHOR
Mark Dapoz
mdapoz%hybrid@cs.toronto.edu