Gents,

 

I think this find is worthy of spreading past the Newznab plugin community.  In evaluating my server, I found it difficult to track down what the "real" cpu/memory situation was.  Unix load is helpful as a blended number....but it doesn't really help you drill down.

 

I went looking and found a FANTASTIC enhanced "top" utility, it  shows you all your cores, visually representing CPU load, Memory/Swap.  Gives you easy to figure out sorting/filtering of the process list..and even lets you use the arrow keys to select a process and do tasks like change the "nice" level or kill it.

 

There is also easy access to the process tree.  All in all, it's the best text/ncurses based way I've ever seen for seeing what is going on with a Linux server.

 

Just log into your unraid as root and copy these commands:

cd /boot/extra
wget http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-13.1/hardware/htop/0.8.3/htop-0.8.3-i486-3sl.txz
installpkg htop-0.8.3-i486-3sl.txz

 

The only trick is making sure your terminal is properly set...with secureCRT I had to do:

export TERM=linux

 

You can try the common ones to see which term works for you.  linux, ansi, xterm etc.

 

Here is a link to the page: http://htop.sourceforge.net/

Very nice! I just installed it on my headless Ubuntu systems as well  I love that it allows the ability to SCROLL through the running processes, how freaking nice!

 

Looking at your directions, that's not a persistent install is it? That will only run until the system is rebooted correct?

 

Command to kick it off in terminal is "htop" BTW for those that might not have figured that out.

/boot/extra packages are installed on boot, it is designed for things like this...simple installs that don't need a configuration.  So htop will be there after you reboot .

 

Did you notice you can do left/right arrow to see parts of long commands that "top" would cut at the edge of the screen?