1. Top
Top is a GUI interface to the Unix text based system
monitoring facility top. Its purpose is to
exercise some key features of Wize, including:
- demonstrate the ease of using Gui.
- repeatedly insert/delete data from a TreeView widget.
- make extensive use of Styles.
Top can be invoked with:
wize / Gui/Top
Top has 3 main tabs, plus optional per-PID monitors.
Here are some screenshots:
1.1 Process Table
Displays a list of all processes running on the system.
There are options for displaying only a subset of processes,
as well as changing the display mode to tree.
Using right-click gives a menu that allows monitoring
specific PIDs, Renicing a process or
sending signals to a process. It can also show
or hide columns.
1.2 System Load
Displays 4 graphs:
- CPU% - cumultive CPU used by running processes.
- Memory - cumultive Memory used by processes.
- Load Average - the average load factor.
- Network - network activity
1.3 File Systems
This displays usage by file system.
1.4 PID Monitor
PID Monitor collects and graphs information about
a single process. To close the tab, left click on
the red cross.
© 2008 Peter MacDonald