xrestop(1)

okay so bestie, you opened xrestop(1) from the General Commands Manual, and it’s literally a whole tool for watching X11 clients’ server-side resource usage 👀✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

xrestop — monitor server resources used by X11 clients 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xrestop --help
xrestop [ --display display ] [ --batch ] [ --delay-time seconds ] [
--max-samples count ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

xrestop uses the X-Resource extension to give you 'top'-like statistics of each connected X11 client’s server-side resource usage. It’s intended as a developer tool to help with more efficient server resource usage and to debug server-side resource leakage 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --help, -h — show usage and exit, iconic behavior tbh 💖
• --version, -V — print version and exit, periodt ⭐
• --display, -d <display> — specify the X11 display to monitor 👑
• --delay-time, -t <seconds> — time in seconds between taking samples. Default is 2 seconds ⏱️
• --batch, -b — run in batch mode. Slightly more detailed infomation (yes, that’s the original spelling, bestie 😭) is streamed to stdout instead of the usual curses interface. This mode is intended for debugging a single client with something like:

xrestop -b | grep -A 14 appname

• --max-samples, -m <count> — specify the number of times to gather and display results. Default is continuous, which can be set with 0 (zero) 🔁

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

X(7), top(1).

💀 BUGS 💀

The X-Resource extension may not be 100% accurate — so don’t treat it like absolute gospel, bestie 🫠

💜 AUTHOR 💜

xrestop was written by Matthew Allum <mallum@handhelds.org> 🫶

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