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LavaPS - Interactive process-tracking program

'LavaPS' is an interactive process-tracking program that presents certain important information in a graphical analog form (as opposed to presenting lots of information in digital form). You run it in the background and get a rough idea of what's happening without devoting much concentration to the task.

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 page http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/LAVAPS/index.html
Source tarball http://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	John Heidemann <johnh@isi.edu>
Developers	John Heidemann <johnh@isi.edu>

Related information

Interfaces	X Window System
Source languages	C++
Build prerequisites	Gcc 2.8 or later, C++, STL, Tcl/Tk 8.x or Gnome/GTK 2.2
Related programs	Atop, Bubbling Load Monitor Applet, gPS, Procman, procps, Psmon

Entry information

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

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