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LavaPS - Interactive process-tracking program

'LavaPS' is an interactive process-tracking program that presents a small amount of important information in a graphical analog form (as opposed to lots of information presented digitally). It runs in the background and quickly and simply gives you a rough idea of what's happening.

Each blob represents a process. Blob size is proportional to memory usage, and movement is proportional to CPU usage. Color is a combination of program name (which decided the hue) and time since the program last ran (which decides saturation): things that haven't run in a while are stationary and dark, while things that run a lot are bright and moving. A popup box gives more information about a process. Clicking the left button brings up the popup, the right button brings up a control menu.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/LAVAPS/index.html
Source tarballhttp://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/LAVAPS/lavaps-2.4.tar.gz
Version 2.4 (stable) released on 2003-09-26
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User manpage available in HTML format from http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/LAVAPS/lavaps_man.html
Support contacts

Help List<johnh@isi.edu>
Developer List<johnh@isi.edu>
Bug List<johnh@isi.edu>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

InterfacesX Window System
Source languagesC++
Build prerequisitesGcc 2.8 or later, C++, STL, Tcl/Tk 8.x *or* Gnome/GTK 2.2
Related programsAtop, Bubbling Load Monitor Applet, gPS, Procman, procps, Psmon

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-07-09
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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