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Although the gstripchart program can be used to plot very nearly any parameter that is of interest, the default configuration will produce a useful overview of the performance parameters of the system that it's being run on. This section describes basic usage of the gstripchart program in its default configuration. A description of how to customize the parameters that are plotted is provided later in this document.
When you first start gstripchart, you see the main window, as shown in Figure 1.
In its default configuration, the gstripchart creates a 200 by 50 pixel window that contains two main elements — a scrolling "strip" on the left, and a series of "pens" on the right. When using the default configuration, there will be a "pen" and a "strip" line showing the current and recently past values of system's CPU utilization in blue, the one minute load average in yellow, the percentage of swap space in use in white, and the inbound and outbound network traffic volumes in red and green, respectively. If a PPP interface is currently active, a green indicator light will be displayed in the upper left corner of the main window.
Clicking on the gstripchart main window with mouse button one will pop up a numeric value window. The numeric value window corresponding to the main window shown in Figure 1 is shown below in Figure 2.
This window provides a multi-line, text-based display of the name, current value, and full-scale value of each of the parameters being plotted. It can be dismissed either by clicking on the close button in the title bar of the numeric value window, or by a second mouse click in the main window.Clicking on the gstripchart main window with mouse button three will pop up an Application menu containing Help, About, Params, and Exit menu items, as shown below in Figure 3.
The Help and About menu items display this help information and the usual about box, respectively, and the Exit menu item terminates the execution of the stripchart program. The Params displays a window containing a notebook with a page describing the details of each parameter, as shown in Figure 4.<<< Previous | Home | Next >>> |
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