minitop

minitop is a lightweight Linux console utility that displays key system metrics in a clear, minimal format. Think of it as a "mini-top" that shows only the essentials: CPU usage, memory, storage, and system uptime.

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✨ Features

• Clear display of essential metrics:

  • CPU
  • RAM
  • Storage
  • Systime

• Supports two display modes:

  • Percentages (%)
  • Absolute values (e.g., 8/16 GB)

• Configurable update interval

• Interactive keyboard controls

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💻 Installation

Build with CMake:

git clone https://github.com/ugolnikovE/minitop
cd minitop
cmake -Bbuild
cmake --build build

Note: minitop currently does not install to /usr/bin or similar.

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⚡ Usage

./minitop [OPTIONS]

Example Output:

┌───────┬───────┐
│Metric │Value  │
├───────┼───────┤
│CPU    │0.60 % │
│RAM    │17.36 %│
│Storage│0.46 % │
├───────┼───────┤
│Systime│17403  │
└───────┴───────┘

📋 Options

  -h, --help       Show help message
  -p, --percents   Display metrics in percentages
  -v, --values     Display metrics in absolute values
  -i, --interval   Set update interval in seconds

⌨️ Interactive Keys

  q  Quit the program
  1  Switch to percentage display mode
  2  Switch to absolute value display mode

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💡 Motivation

This project was created for educational purposes to:

• Practice teamwork in software development
• Learn C++
• Create a wrapper for a custom C library for monitoring system resources (sysload)

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License — see LICENSE for details.