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NAME

       procmeter3_modules  -  The  modules  that  are  used  by  the  procmeter3, procmeter3-xaw,
       gprocmeter3,  procmeter3-gtk1,  procmeter3-gtk2,   procmeter3-gtk3,   procmeter3-log   and
       procmeter3-lcd programs.

DESCRIPTION

       The  ProcMeter3  programs  provide  a  framework  that allows displaying of information in
       various formats.  The collection of the data to be displayed is  performed  by  a  set  of
       loadable modules.

MODULES

       The modules that are provided with the program are the following:

       ACPI   Advanced  Configuration  and  Power  Interface  information. These outputs are only
              available if you have enabled ACPI in the Linux kernel and you have the appropriate
              hardware.   ACPI  can  report various information about a system's battery, and may
              also have thermal outputs available.

       APM    Advanced Power Management information.  These outputs are  only  available  if  you
              have  configured  the  Linux  kernel  to  have  the  APM  feature  and you have the
              appropriate hardware.  The outputs can tell you the amount of  time  remaining  and
              the state of charge of the battery.

       Battery
              Battery  information from /sys/class/power_supply/ which is the new replacement for
              battery information from ACPI or  APM  and  contains  more  information  about  the
              battery.

       Biff   Monitors  the e-mail inbox (in /var/spool/mail/<username> or /var/mail/<username> )
              and indicates the number of e-mails that are waiting and the  size  of  the  inbox.
              The  options parameter in the .procmeterrc file can be used to specify an alternate
              filename to use for the inbox.

       CPUInfo
              Information about the CPUs in the system, currently only the CPU speed in MHz.

       Date_Time
              The current date and time and the amount of time since the system was last  booted.
              Different  outputs  are  available  that  allow  the  format  of  the date and time
              information to be changed.  For the time  outputs  the  options  parameter  in  the
              .procmeterrc  file can be set to 12 to indicate that a 12 hour format with AM/PM is
              to be used.

       DiskUsage
              Shows the percentage of the disk that is used and the amount of free space for each
              of  the  local  disks  that it finds are mounted or can be mounted when the program
              starts.  Extra disks can be passed as options using the options  parameter  in  the
              .procmeterrc file to contain a space separated list of mount points.

       FanSpeed
              Information  from  hardware  sensors  for  fan  speed  (requires libsensors library
              installed but does read sensors.conf file for system customisation).   The  options
              parameter  in  the  .procmeterrc  file  can be used to specify an alternate sensors
              configuration filename to use instead of the default.  If this is used then it must
              be used in each of the FanSpeed, Temperature and Voltage modules.

       LogFile
              Monitors  the  size  and  number  of  lines and the rate of increase of the size or
              number of lines in a set of log files.  The options parameter in  the  .procmeterrc
              file contains a space separated list of log file names.

       Longrun
              For  systems  with the Transmeta Crueso processor, information about longrun.  Will
              not work unless the kernel is compiled with  CPUID  support,  and  /dev/cpu/0/cpuid
              must  be  readable by ProcMeter. (Allow regular users to access the cpuid device at
              your own risk!)

       Memory The amount of memory that is used for programs, buffers, cache and the amount  that
              is free.  This is the same information that is available from the free program, but
              is available here as a graph, bar or as text.

       Network
              The network  devices  and  the  amount  of  traffic  on  each  of  them.   It  will
              automatically  pick up available devices when it starts.  To specify others use the
              options parameter in the .procmeterrc configuration file which is a space separated
              list of device names.

       ProcMeter
              Information about the procmeter program itself.

       Processes
              The load average and the number of processes running and starting.

       Sensors
              Information  from  hardware  sensors  for temperature and fan speed (simple version
              with fixed scaling).

       Stat-CPU
              More detailed statistics about individual CPU usage including individual CPU  usage
              for SMP machines.

       Stat-Disk
              More  detailed  statistics  about  individual disk usage read and write.  For older
              Linux kernels (before version 2.4) there is only support for up to  4  disks  (this
              limit is set by the kernel and not by ProcMeter).  For version 2.4 or later kernels
              the limit is removed and the disk names are picked up when the program starts.  For
              version  2.6  or later kernels individual partitions are available.  To force other
              disks to be listed use the options parameter in the .procmeterrc configuration file
              which is a space separated list of device names (e.g. /dev/fd0).

       Stat-Intr
              More  detailed  statistics  about individual interrupts including support for up to
              256 interrupts.  If fewer interrupts are wanted then the options parameter  in  the
              .procmeterrc configuration file can be set to the maximum number to display.

       Statistics
              Low  level system statistics.  For example CPU usage, context switches, interrupts,
              disk usage (before kernel 2.6), swapping and paging (before kernel 2.6).

       Temperature
              Information from hardware sensors  for  temperature  (requires  libsensors  library
              installed  but  does read sensors.conf file for system customisation).  The options
              parameter in the .procmeterrc file can be used  to  specify  an  alternate  sensors
              configuration filename to use instead of the default.  If this is used then it must
              be used in each of the FanSpeed, Temperature and Voltage modules.

       Uname  The system information, hostname and Linux kernel version, the same as  the  output
              of the uname program.

       VM_Statistics
              Low  level  system statistics about virtual memory (swapping and paging) for kernel
              version 2.6 where the information has moved from the Statistics section.

       Voltage
              Information  from  hardware  sensors  for  voltages  (requires  libsensors  library
              installed  but  does read sensors.conf file for system customisation).  The options
              parameter in the .procmeterrc file can be used  to  specify  an  alternate  sensors
              configuration filename to use instead of the default.  If this is used then it must
              be used in each of the FanSpeed, Temperature and Voltage modules.

       Wireless
              Information about wireless network devices. It will automatically pick up available
              devices  when  it  starts.  To  specify  others  use  the  options parameter in the
              .procmeterrc configuration file which is a space separated list of device names.

SEE ALSO

       procmeter3(1), procmeter3-xaw(1), gprocmeter3(1), procmeter3-gtk1(1),  procmeter3-gtk2(1),
       procmeter3-gtk3(1), procmeter3-log(1), procmeter3-lcd(1), procmeterrc(5).

       biff(1) free(1) uname(1)

AUTHOR

       Andrew M. Bishop (c) 2007-2012

                                         January 22, 2012                   PROCMETER3_MODULES(1)