glances – Get a glimpse of the whole system

2012-02-21 1 min read Fedora

You would have used top at some point of time. Did you not wish that instead of just the processes it list all the vital statistics of the system as a whole. How good it would be to see the Memory, Net, Processes and Disk usage on the same screen. Well then you should take a look at glances. Here is how it looks:

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glances

For using this tool, here is what you need to do :

sudo yum install glances

and here is the description of the tool:

Description :
Glances is a CLI curses based monitoring tool for both GNU/Linux and BSD.

Glances uses the libstatgrab library to get information from your system.
Glances is developed in Python and uses the python-statgrab lib.

Hope you like it.

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