---
name: "ttyload"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ttyload"
version: "0.5+20131024+gitf949537-5"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ttyload"
---

# ttyload(1)

Console based color-coded graphs of CPU load average

## NAME

ttyload - Console based color-coded graphs of CPU load average

## SYNOPSIS

```
  ttyload [options]
```

## OPTIONS

- **-h**

  Show brief help.

- **-v**

  Show version information.

- **-m**

  Monochrome mode (no ANSI escapes).

- **-c cols**

  Specify how many columns wide is the screen.

- **-r rows**

  Specify how many rows high is the screen. These two options override the default behavior of auto-determining screen size.

- **-i secs**

  Alter the number of seconds in the interval between refreshes. The default is 4, and the minimum is 1, which is silently clamped.

  None.

## DESCRIPTION

Display fairly standard, but hard-coded, ANSI ASCII escape sequences for screen manipulation and colorization for different graphs: 1 minute, 5 minute, 15 minute load averages. Use C-c to quit.

## ENVIRONMENT

None.

## FILES

None.

## SEE ALSO

[**htop**(1)](/htop/1.md) [**iotop**(1)](/iotop/1.md) [**top**(1)](/top/1.md) [**vmstat**(8)](/vmstat/8.md)

## AUTHORS

Program was written by David Lindes \<src/ttyload@daveltd.com\>.

This manual page was written by Jari Aalto \<jari.aalto@cante.net\>, for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others). Released under license GNU GPL v2 or (at your option) any later version. For more information about license, visit \<http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html\>.