wmhdplop software monitors hard drive activity and provides visual information about it.
If you're looking for a software solution to monitor your hard drives and receive visual information on their activity, then check out wmhdplop. This project is designed to provide comprehensive data related to your disk usage, including read/write activity and swapin/swapout metrics. Additionally, if you're running the hddtemp daemon, then it can report on your disk temperature and status.
One of the key features of wmhdplop is its portability. However, note that it requires a recent kernel version and will not run on older systems. Some other features you might enjoy include useless but engaging animations that reflect disc and swap activity, along with textual data on throughput. It also supports ide drives, as well as scsi and md arrays.
When it comes to installation and setup, the configure shell script is your go-to option. It generates a Makefile in each package directory, which can be used to create a config.status shell script in the future. This file contains compiler output, useful for debugging configure. You can also use config.cache to save results from tests for faster configuration in the future. Caching is disabled by default to avoid issues with stale files.
System requirements include gcc-3.x and either a 2.6 Linux kernel or a 2.4.20+ kernel with CONFIG_BLK_STATS=y. Additionally, you need to have the imlib2 devel package installed.
One of the latest editions of wmhdplop has addressed minor font bugs and introduced a flag for displaying temperatures in Fahrenheit. Overall, this project is an excellent solution for keeping tabs on your storage usage and related metrics.
One of the key features of wmhdplop is its portability. However, note that it requires a recent kernel version and will not run on older systems. Some other features you might enjoy include useless but engaging animations that reflect disc and swap activity, along with textual data on throughput. It also supports ide drives, as well as scsi and md arrays.
When it comes to installation and setup, the configure shell script is your go-to option. It generates a Makefile in each package directory, which can be used to create a config.status shell script in the future. This file contains compiler output, useful for debugging configure. You can also use config.cache to save results from tests for faster configuration in the future. Caching is disabled by default to avoid issues with stale files.
System requirements include gcc-3.x and either a 2.6 Linux kernel or a 2.4.20+ kernel with CONFIG_BLK_STATS=y. Additionally, you need to have the imlib2 devel package installed.
One of the latest editions of wmhdplop has addressed minor font bugs and introduced a flag for displaying temperatures in Fahrenheit. Overall, this project is an excellent solution for keeping tabs on your storage usage and related metrics.
What's New
Version 0.9.8: N/A