tallystat

A terminal system monitor for Ubuntu with braille graphs, written in C with no dependencies beyond libc.

It shows:

• CPU usage per core, or the average, as braille line graphs
• Main and swap memory usage graphs
• Network rx/tx sparklines, totals, and current rates
• Disk usage and read/write rates for each mounted device
• Temperatures from every hwmon sensor
• A process list you can sort, filter, group by name, and kill from

Install

From a release .deb

sudo apt-get install ./tallystat_1.0.0_amd64.deb

From a local apt repository

make repo
echo "deb [trusted=yes] file:$PWD/dist/apt ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tallystat.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tallystat

make repo builds the package with dpkg-deb and indexes it with dpkg-scanpackages. Both come with dpkg-dev.

From source

make
sudo make install          # /usr/local/bin/tallystat

The debian/ directory is a standard debhelper source package. Use it to build with dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc or to upload to a Launchpad PPA.

Usage

tallystat [options]

  -c, --color=NAME        default, ember, monokai, solarized, nord
  -m, --minimal           only CPU, memory and processes
  -r, --rate=SECONDS      refresh interval (default 1)
  -a, --averagecpu        show the average CPU line
  -p, --percpu            show a line per core
  -s, --statusbar         hostname, clock and uptime
  -f, --fahrenheit        temperatures in °F
  -S, --graphscale=N      horizontal graph scale 1-40 (default 7)
  -i, --interface=NAME    only measure one network interface

Press ? inside tallystat to see all key bindings. The main ones:

Key	Action
q / Ctrl-c	quit
j k / arrows	move through processes
gg G / Home End	jump to the top or bottom
Tab	group processes by name
dd	kill the selected process or group (SIGTERM)
/	filter by name or PID
c m p	sort by CPU, memory, or PID
h l	scale graphs in or out

License

MIT