--- name: "gr_monitor" section: "1" platform: "linux" package: "grmonitor" version: "0.81-4.2" release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)" platforms: ["linux"] url: "https://new.carta.tech/gr_monitor" --- # gr\_monitor(1) 3D Process or Data Monitor V0.53 ## NAME gr\_monitor - 3D Process or Data Monitor V0.53 ## SYNOPSIS **gr\_monitor** \[-t proc\|free\|rup\|CMD\] \[-host h\] \[-sleep n\] \[-noskip\] \[-stdin\] \[-perrow n\] \[-gap x\] \[-witdh n\] \[-height n\] \[-geometry\] \[-angle n\] \[-dolly n\] \[-zoom x\] \[-zhorz x\] \[-zvert x\] \[-color\] \[-nolight\] \[-fog\] \[-onebuf\] \[-rotate\] \[-verbose\] \[-v\] ## DESCRIPTION **Gr\_Monitor** displays a series of datasets as animated 3D bar charts. By default gr\_monitor displays information about processes resident on a UNIX system. For each process it displays a 3D bar graph of CPU consumed, memory consumed, resident set size, and elapsed time. The processes are grouped by username. Each username grouping sits on its own little plinth. There are controls for translating, rotating, scaling, lighting and fog effects. Gr\_monitor receives info via an input stream and displays it in a X11 Mesa or X11 OpenGL window. The input is expected to be an XML document with a DTD that defines the data to be plotted. **Gr\_gather**(1) is an implementation of a data gatherer. It obtains data from the Linux process file system and reformats it as a suitable XML document. You can run it stand alone and redirect its output to a file if you wish to record data for later playback. **Gr\_free**(1) and **Gr\_rup**(1) are implementations of data gatherers for disk/memory statistics and local-host load averages. The gr\_monitor XML input requirements are easily understood and could be used to display new kinds of data without any modification. ### OPTIONS - *-t proc\|free\|rup\|CMD* Gr\_monitor will start up one of three possible data gathering sub processes. Proc does process monitoring. Free does disk and memory monitoring. Rup monitors the load average on local hosts. - *-host hostname* Gr\_monitor will use rsh to fire up the gather process on another host. Data will be piped back to the local host for display. - *-sleep seconds* Time to sleep between updates. The default is 5 seconds. A sleep of 0 (zero) will cause gr\_monitor to start up halted (the space bar will single step the display). By default gr\_monitor will start a gather process and pass it the same -sleep value. - *-noskip* Normally data will be skipped if the renderer can't keep up with it. When playing back pre-recorded data via the -stdin option, you should switch off skipping. - *-stdin* Take data in gather format from standard input. Use this option if you've writen your own gatherer, or if you want to play back a previously recorded set of gather data. - *-perrow n* If a row exceeds this many processes, a new row will be started. - *-gap x* Space between plinths (a real number). - *-width n* Display width in pixels. - *-height* Display height in pixels. - *-geometry* Normal X11 geometry spec. - *-angle n* Tilt on X axis in degrees. - *-dolly n* Distant to translate in the z axis (dolly the camera). - *-zoom x* Projection zoom factor. - *-zhorz x* Horizontal zoom factor. - *-zvert n* Vertical zoom factor. - *-color* Use own color map. Colors will look better. Worth a look. - *-nolight* Turn off lighting effects. - *-fog* Turn on fog effects. - *-onebuf* Use single buffering of the display image. - *-rotate* Start up rotating. - *-verbose* or *-v* Provides some feedback to stderr. Maximum output is generated by -verbose. Alternatively the -v option will only report skipped data sets due to the monitor not being able to keep up with the gatherer, which is useful when trying to select a good -sleep value. ## GR\_MONITOR WINDOW The following controls are available in the gr\_monitor window. The middle mouse button will bring a keyboard quick reference. The right mouse button will bring up another small menu duplicating some of the keyboard functions. When pressing keys beware of excessive type-a-head (count your key presses). Here is a summary of the keys and what they do: - *ESC* Exits gr\_monitor. - *?* Dump a key summary on stdout. - *p/P* Increase or decrease the items per row guideline by one (default 12). Handy if you don't like the layout. - *a/A* Zoom in or out. - *x/X y/Y z/Z* Rotation about the specified axis. Lowercase +ve rotation. Uppercase -ve rotation. - *i/I j/J k/K* Translation along the specified axis (i,j,k implies x,y,z). - *r* Toggles rotation. - *0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9* Selects a bar type. Can only select from the first 10 bar types. - *s/S* Scale selected bar type up or down. Lowercase = up. Uppercase = down. - *n or N* Scale selected bar type by 1.0 (i.e. reset scale). - *o or O* Turn off selected bar type. - *l or L* Toggle lighting. - *f or F* Toggle fog effects. - *h or H* Halt the display. - *SPACE* Step one frame through a halted display. ## ENVIRONMENT **GR\_GATHER\_COMMAND** can contain an alternative command to run instead of the default which is gr\_gather. ## DATA FORMAT The input data format is a XML document. The DTD for the XML document should contain a hierarchy of elements that conforms to the following guidelines. The DTD should contain a **datastream** element that contains a list of **dataset** elements that represent snapshots to be plotted. Each dataset should contain a list of **group** elements that group the data by some major key, for example userid. Each group element should contain a list of **item** elements that group the data by some minor key, for example process ID. Datasets, groups and items must have **id** attributes. In a given datastream, each item element must contain a number of uniquely named data elements. For example, an item might contain data elements called **cpu,** **rss,** and **memory.** And each of these data elements should have a **data** attribute that specifies a value to be plotted. The date values should be a percentage value, i.e 1.0 to 100.00. Items may have differing numbers of data elements. Here is a sample document produced by gr\_gather. It uses an embedded DTD (between the square brackets). \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \]\>\ \ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \ \ Further examples can be obtained by viewing the stardard output from any of the gather implementations. ## SEE ALSO [**top**(1)](/top/1.md), [**ps**(1)](/ps/1.md), [**gr\_free**(1)](/gr_free/1.md), [**gr\_gather**(1)](/gr_gather/1.md), [**gr\_rup**(1)](/gr_rup/1.md) ## BUGS AND LIMITATIONS Please send any bug reports to michael@actrix.gen.nz. Gr\_Monitor is very slow on a 486 with a non-accelerated graphics card but OK on more modern systems. It is fun to watch, especially on a machine where processes or users are coming and going. It is very useful for spotting hogs and uninhibited growth. Gr\_monitor is something I hacked together to learn more about OpenGL, SGI's open standard for 2D/3D graphics. The whole thing was developed under Linux using the Mesa OpenGL look-a-like library. ## AUTHOR Michael Hamilton (michael@actrix.gen.nz) ## ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Brian Paul (brianp@ssec.wisc.edu) is the author of the The Mesa 3-D graphics library. XML parsing is handled by James Clark's (jjc@jclark.com) expat library. Linux gr\_gather is based on **procps top** by Branko Lankester, Roger Binns, and Michael K. Johnson. Gr\_monitor is based on a cut up of the GLUT example/scube.c which rotates a cube above a checker board with shadows, lighting etc. Thanks to GLUT author Mark J. Kilgard (mjk@sgi.com), scube author David G Yu. ## LICENCE (c) Copyright 1999, Michael Hamilton, Gentoo South Pacific Limited. Rights to this work are defined by the copyrights on the work on which it is based. Portions coded by myself are covered by the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENCE. Gr\_gather is covered by the same licence as **procps:** the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENCE. 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