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Loadbars

Loadbars is a small script that can be used to observe CPU loads of several remote servers at once in real time. It connects with SSH (using SSH public/private key auth) to several servers at once and vizualizes all server CPUs and memory statistics right next each other (either summarized or each core separately). Loadbars is not a tool for collecting CPU loads and drawing graphs for later analysis. However, since such tools require a significant amount of time before producing results, Loadbars lets you observe the current state immediately. Loadbars does not remember or record any load information. It just shows the current CPU usages like top or vmstat does.

Licenses	GPLv3 or later
Operating Systems	Linux
Implementation	Perl SDL SSH client
Translations	English

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0.5.3

01 May 2012 21:13

Release Notes: Introduces a new --hasagent parameter. With --hasagent 1, loadbars will not run 'ssh-add', which would ask for your SSH key password to add it to the SSH agent. With --hasagent 0 (the default value) loadbars will run 'ssh-add' on startup in order to add your SSH key to the SSH agent. An openssh-client dependency has been added to the .deb package. There are some code bugfixes.

0.5.2

20 Apr 2012 22:22

Release Notes: This release adds heavy code refactoring (splitting the code into different modules) and is the first release which provides Debian packages.

0.5.1.3

20 Apr 2012 16:11

Release Notes: This release sleeps 0.5s instead of 3s if an ssh command fails. It redraws the background on toggling text display (which should fix some weird display bugs).

0.5.1.2

16 Mar 2012 21:46

Release Notes: This fixes a nasty bug that occurred on quit: too many PIDs were terminated.

0.5.1.1

16 Mar 2012 11:47

Release Notes: This bugfix-only release drops FreeBSD support (the focus for now is Linux; FreeBSD might come back later), terminates all sub-processes instantly on shutdown (this feature needs the Proc::ProcessTable module to be installed), and doesn't quit loadbars if ~/.loadbarsrc cannot be overwritten.