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Description
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gPS is a graphical process statistics tool for Unix,
working like ps and top (or the Windoze Task Manager).
It shows a process list, details of seleted processes, cpu, memory and
swap usage and history. It can also browse processes and statistics
about remote networked computers.
The process list may be refreshed periodically (like top) or be
refreshed on request (like ps).
gPS allows: filtering the process list on any of the shown fields
and allows sorting on any field, in any direction; Sending POSIX signals
to local processes; Renicing local processes.
gPS was developed with the
GTK+ toolkit, and requires version
1.2.1 or greater of gtk+ installed prior to compiling or
installing. On RPM-based systems you'll need the
glib,
gtk+, glib-devel and gtk+-devel
packages installed to compile (to install an RPM package of
gPS you just need the first two above).
gPS is distributed freely, under the terms of the well known
GNU General Public License, version 2.
The gPS this page refers to isn't in any way related to the
Global Positioning System.
You can see some screenshots of gPS here.
OS compatibility
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Linux, its native
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gPS now has a native FreeBSD/i386
poller and a native rgpsp for network polling.
It has been tested with 3.4-RELEASE and 4.0 only, but should work with 2.2
versions and may work with 5.X, reports are welcome.
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on the top program that may or may not run on other un*xes.
It has been reported to work limtedly with Solaris. If you
get gPS running on another flavor of Unix, please report it. |
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Download
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Latest version is: 1.1.0
(release date: April 28 2002)
gPS is distributed in source tarballs (tar + gzip). Binary
package contributions are accepted. You can download gPS
from the following sites:
To download an RPM package click the directory listing
in the table above and then enter the RPMS directory.
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Documentation
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Documentation is provided as man pages. After installation type
man gps for help on using gPS and
man rgpsp for help on using the remote watch feature.
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Credits
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gPS was originally written by Gabriel Swellson gps@schoolforge.net.
It is being maintained by
Felipe Bergo bergo at seul dot org.
Beat Christen
contributed to the project but is no longer an active developer.
Tux (the Linux mascot on which the banner at the top is based) was created and
by Larry Ewing. The BSD daemon is
copyrighted by Marshall McKusick.
Thanks to the
SEUL Project for hosting gPS.
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Links
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SEUL.org
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Web site of the Simple End User Linux project.
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freshmeat.net
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Open source software index
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XFCE - GTK+ based lightweight desktop environment.
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www.bluevoxel.com - this is what Felipe is working on currently -
Other interesting ways to watch and kill processes
comments on this page should be adressed to Felipe Bergo
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