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Submitted by Thomas Leonard on Sun, 2006-01-08 15:57
Summary: 
process and disk monitor
Current stable version: 
1.9.1
Primary author(s): 
Thomas Leonard
Zero Install URL (drag link to AddApp to install): 
http://rox.sourceforge.net/2006/interfaces/System
Downloads: 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7023&package_id=15587

2009-09-13: This program is no longer maintained. There are many other system monitoring tools out there (e.g. gnome-system-monitor) - I'm sure you can find something to suit you.

A simplified gtop which shows processes and mounted filesystems as bar charts.
http://rox.sourceforge.net/screens/system.png

Features

  • Displays Shared/Unshared/Swapped memory for each process.
  • State indicator beside each process shows current state (running, sleeping, etc).
  • Popup menu allows processes to be paused, resumed and killed.
  • Displays Reserved/Used/Free space for each filesystem.

Installation

In order to use System, you will need:

  • GTK+ 2.0.0 (or later) (http://www.gtk.org)
  • The libgtop2 library. (note: newer versions of libgtop are supported starting with version 1.9.1)

For version 1.9.1 and later:

  • Python 2.2
  • ROX-Lib2 2.0.0
  • the ctypes python module

Having ROX-Filer will make things slightly easier, but you can use it without.

Extract the archive (eg, by dragging it to Archive) and click on System in a ROX-Filer window (if you don't have an application-directory-aware filer then go into the System directory and run AppRun manually).

SVN snapshots

Daily snapshots of the latest CVS version are available from the snapshots dir: http://rox.sourceforge.net/snapshots/

Incorrect display on Linux 2.6.x series

See this thread. (or try the new 1.9.1 version)

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System problems

Submitted by Thomas Leonard on Thu, 2006-03-16 19:17.

From bug 950764 (copied here as not everyone reads the bug tracker):

"It works fine with libgtop-2.12.2 and both ctypes-0.6.3 and ctypes-0.9.6.

It does not work, however, with libgtop-2.12.2 and ctypes-0.9.9.3, and with the just released libgtop-2.14.0 and any of the ctypes versions I tried."

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The ctypes 0.9.9.3 issue

Submitted by KenHayber on Fri, 2006-03-17 05:22.

The ctypes 0.9.9.3 issue should be fixed in SVN now. The previous top.py called cdll.LoadLibrary('library name'). But the documentation said that CDLL('library name') was preferred. Works here at least.

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libgtop

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2007-06-27 15:55.

When I try to run System I get "OSError: libgtop-2.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

I'm not a techy (just curious as to what my machine is up to) but I assume I have the wrong version of libgtop, however the link above leads to a "Getting Started on GNOME" page and I can't spot libgtop on it.

Where am I getting lost?

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System Set Up

Submitted by Mark Williams on Wed, 2008-03-05 14:35.

Mine looks nothing like the screenshot above.

[IMG]http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c266/Mark761/2008-03-05-143235_1280x1024_scrot.png[/IMG]

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SVN Version Works Better

Submitted by Mark Williams on Wed, 2008-04-23 08:38.

Than the current stable version.

Weird.

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