Has anyone managed to compile nmon for freebsd? or alternatives?

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Im used to this great tool called nmon. if you havnt heard of it you should check it out

Anyway im dabbeling with freebsd, and wanted to see if i can get it compiles. I managed to get the includes working, more or less atleast. and it compiles.

But it segfaults when i run it.

So has anyone run compiled it under freebsd or anyone have a good alternative?

madmaze, did you achieve it on any bsd like os ? – m1k3y02 Apr 26 '12 at 15:48 — m1k3y02, Apr 26 '12 at 15:48

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 12 '13 at 23:27

Try these:

systat -vmstat 1 # BSD summary of system statistics (1 s intervals)
systat -tcp 1 # BSD tcp connections (try also -ip)
systat -netstat 1 # BSD active network connections
systat -ifstat 1 # BSD network traffic through active interfaces
systat -iostat 1 # BSD CPU and and disk throughput

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 12 '13 at 20:13

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This tool won't work on FreeBSD since it relies on Linux's /proc filesystem to gather information. FreeBSD's /proc filesystem is totally different.

As an alternative, have a look at the built-in systat program.

answered Oct 12 '13 at 20:13

Roland Smith

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Apparently, BSD systat does not differentiate read and write disk throughput, like nmon does, but otherwise it works just fine. – plang Apr 16 '14 at 13:55

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 13 '16 at 15:38

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I ported nmon to FreeBSD and it works fine; the sources and binaries is here: http://mygnuos.tk/software/free/nmon/

Please note this tool could work on FreeBSD only if you mount the linprocfs at /proc

mount -t linprocfs procfs /proc

answered Sep 13 '16 at 15:38

Low power

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Has anyone managed to compile nmon for freebsd? or alternatives?

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