Software Update: GKrellM 2.1.8

Everyone is familiar with some program to show some stats from their computer. This can be done via a bar using Statbar and Winbar, but also via CoolMon. This can mainly be seen on the forum; users who use a program on their Windows desktop to show different kinds of statistics. Linux users usually use the GKrellM program. This program is able to show stats by means of one process, which benefits the system load.

Version 2.1.8 is the latest version and is available for Windows, MacOS X and Linux, among others. One of the new features is the warning system: you will be warned when the load, CPU usage or swap file exceeds the set value. The rest of the changelog looks like this:

2.1.8 Wed Mar 12, 2003

• Added many alerts: cpu, load, disk, net, file system, memory, and swap. Some of these can have the alert trigger delayed for an interval during which triggering conditions must exist.
• Added some new alert functions – see the plugins changelog.
• New gkrellmd.conf options:
  • io-timeout and reconnect-timeout for automatic gkrellm reconnections t
  • gkrellmd servers. See gkrellmd.conf or “man gkrellmd”.
  • inet interval s
  • Linux reads of /proc/net/tcp can be slowed down. For Linux SMP machines which have a strange feature where a single read of /proc/net/tcp can for example take 0.7 seconds.
• Made allow multiple instances configurable in the GUI. And added a Display name component t
• the lock file when n
• multiple instances.
• Warn if incompatible -w flag and window dock type option is set.
• Fix battery acpi t
• handle some variations: files named “status” instead of “state”, and capitalized field descriptions.
• Hajimu UMEMOTO
• patch handles some definitions which were moved from dkstat.ht
• resource.h under FreeBSD 5-CURRENT.
• Ben Hines Darwin Makefile link flag changes adds bind_at_load and prebind for faster launching.
• Translation updates
  • nl.p from Daniel van Eeden (new translation).
  • cs.p from Pav Lucistnik [pav–at–oook.cz]†
  • de.p translation update.
  • es.p from Cristian Othon Martinez Vera [cfuga–at–itam.mx]†
  • fr.p from Jerome UZEL [jerome.uzel–at–wanadoo.f]† Added in t
  • make the 2.1.8a tarball. I left it out of 2.1.8 because of an email mixup.
  • it.p from Massim
  • Maiurana [maiurana–at–inwind.it]†
  • ja.p from Takeshi AIHANA [aihana–at–jcom.home.ne.jp]†
  • pl.p from Przemyslaw Sulek [pbs–at–linux.net.pl]†
  • ru.p from Grigory Batalov [bga–at–altlinux.ru]†
  • please from Christian Rose [menthos–at–menthos.com]
• Bug fixes
  • Christopher Hassell [jeezfrk–at–pobox.com] patch stops some segfaults by making disk_assign_data() really not reference NULL disks.
  • Brian Almeida [bma–at–tux.org] fix to check chart format strings for NULL to stop some segfaults (it happens when g_locale_from_utf8() cannot convert a utf8 string to the current locale so this may also be a user font problem).
  • Patrick Modesto [mody–at–atlas.cz] patch changes fopen() to open() in Linux gkrellm_sys_net_isdn_online(). Beats me why fopen() wasn’t working.

[break] If you don’t use Linux, you can here go for the correct version of GKrellM .