Sysit

System Sit, check on the system with a quick glance!

About

Provides basic system information in a short amount of text, ideally within 40 characters. Relies on heim to get all the relevant system information.

sysit 0.1
Rohan <crodjer@gmail.com>
Get basic system information in one line. For more information use --help

USAGE:
    sysit [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -l, --log        Run in log mode. Will continuously append a row to standard output
    -V, --version    Prints version information
    -w, --watch      Run in watch mode. Will act as if running with the watch command

OPTIONS:
    -i, --interval <interval>    Specify update interval in seconds for watch/log mode [default: 1]

Reasoning

When working headlessly with tmux or even when working on a desktop, being able to quickly see basic system informatino can be useful. There are various system monitors and even btm (also based on heim), but you have to actively switch to them.

For instance, when overclocking the RPi, it makes sense to monitor the CPU frequency and temperature. Inspired by cpu-temp-speed on Manjaro, which has been quite useful in tuning the overclock and colling system configuration.

Usage

From the console

Simply type sysit for a quick glance at the system information.

rohan in mir in sysit on  master is 📦 v0.1.0 via 🦀 v1.49.0
at 17:45:13 ❯ sysit
M: 8% | C: 0% @ 1100 MHz | T: 54°C

This can also be used with a desktop manager's applets. For example, Xfce's genmon.

Continuous Monitoring

Watch Mode

Works as if watch sysit. Can be used within tmux status line for continuous monitoring. Eg:

set -g status-right '#[fg=yellow] #(sysit -wi 2) #[fg=colour235,bg=colour252,bold] %a %d %b %H:%M:%S #[fg=colour252,bg=colour238,nobold]#[fg=colour245,bg=colour238,bold]'

Watch mode with sysit -wi 2 has a benefit of maintaining a single process. Just using plain sysit command will also work, but that'd mean tmux spawns a new process every time.

Log Mode

At times it can be handy to log system stats, for instance, while benchmarking.

rohan in mir in sysit on  master [?] is 📦 v0.1.0 via 🦀 v1.49.0
at 19:22:44 ❯ sysit -li 1
M: 11% | C: 0% @ 675 MHz | T: 55°C
M: 11% | C: 2% @ 600 MHz | T: 54°C
M: 11% | C: 87% @ 2100 MHz | T: 56°C
M: 11% | C: 100% @ 2100 MHz | T: 60°C
M: 11% | C: 100% @ 2100 MHz | T: 63°C
M: 11% | C: 100% @ 2100 MHz | T: 61°C
M: 11% | C: 0% @ 600 MHz | T: 59°C