The xload client displays a periodically updated histogram of the system load.
The syntax for the xload client is:
where:
- -hl color
The color of the scale lines.
- -jumpscroll number
The number of pixels to shift the graph to the left when the graph reaches the right edge of the window. The default is half the width of the current window.
- -label string
The string to put into the label above the histogram.
- -nolabel
No label is displayed above the histogram.
- scale integer
The number of tic marks in the histogram. The default is 1.
- update seconds
The frequency at which the histogram is updated.
xload also accepts the toolkit command line options.
![[The `xload' Client]](img/load.gif)