saidar(1)

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version 0.92.1 · 2 versions
, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0

💅 saidar — bestie's fave system stats glow-up

okay so picture this: it's a terminal, it's giving main character energy, and you want to know what your box is actually doing. That's saidar, a curses-based tool for viewing system statistics. Manual page name saidar(1), one section of the libstatgrab lore, and honestly? iconic. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

saidar [-d delay] [-c] [-v] [-h]

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

saidar is a curses-based tool for viewing the system statistics available through libstatgrab. no cap, it just sits there in your terminal serving looks and numbers. 📊

The stats it shows you include:

  • CPU
  • processes
  • load
  • memory
  • swap
  • network I/O
  • disk I/O
  • file system information

literally the whole squad. 🔥

💖 OPTIONS 💖

The following options are supported. (yes bestie, there are only four, and none of them are scary.)

  • -d DELAY — Wait DELAY seconds between updates (default 3). so if you want it spicier, lower the number; if you want a chill slow-burn, raise it. you do you. ⏱️
  • -c — Enables coloured output. the aesthetic upgrade. 🎨
  • -v — Prints the version number. perfect for when you gotta know exactly which era of saidar you're in. 👑
  • -h — Display help and exits. your little escape hatch, bestie. 🫶

🎨 COLOURED OUTPUT 🎨

When the -c option is used, saidar uses colours to display the data. Each area has a different colour to distinguish it from the nearby fields — because reading a wall of uncoloured numbers is so not the move. 🌈

Bold and reverse video effects are used to emphasis fields where necessary. hi-vis for your data. 💅

Here's the tea on the thresholds:

  • The load average figures are displayed in bold when they're notably (greater that 1) different to each other. this purely shows that a change in the load is occurring. like, the load is going through something and saidar is here to document it. 📈
  • When CPU usage goes over 60% it will be displayed in bold. At 90% the field is displayed using reverse video. 😭
  • Likewise for memory, swap and disk usage at 75% and 90%.
  • Zombie processes are also highlighted. 💀 (yes, literally zombies, spooky szn all year round)
Other values (paging, disk I/O and network I/O) are not highlighted due to the nature of the values; it's not easy to determine what thresholds are significant. so don't come for saidar about those ones, it's just being honest. 🙈

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

statgrab(1) statgrab(3)

🧚 AUTHORS 🧚

This man page was derived from the man page written by Bartosz Fenski for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. credit where credit is due, periodt. 💜

⭐ WEBSITE ⭐

⟨https://libstatgrab.org/⟩ — go say hi, the libstatgrab girlies keep the lights on over there. 🌸

okay that's the whole page bestie, you're officially informed 💖

libstatgrab, dated 2019-03-08, and that's a saidar(1) wrap — mwah 💋✨

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