README file for Xdisk 0.8


Let's start with some legalese from Troll Tech :

   Xdisk requires the Qt library, which is copyright Troll Tech
   AS. Freely distributable programs may generally use Qt for free, see
   [README.QT] for details.

Now, let's take a look at the interesting stuff:

Xdisk display the amount of bytes read from and wrote to the specified
disk(s). The histogram include all physical access to the disk(s). If
you have a swap partition and a filesystem on one disk, the swap
activity will be merged with the filesystem activity.

Xdisk as a number of options to let you put some text in the graph,
to choose what disk(s) you want to monitor, the colors you want etc...
To see these options simply type 'Xdisk -help'

This distribution include source code and an ELF binary.

Xdisk requires the Qt shared lib, X11 and the /proc filesystem. It has
been made and tested on my DX4/100 with 3 scsi disks, linux 2.0.0,
XFree-86 3.1.2, GCC 2.7.2, Qt 0.9.8 and XEmacs 19.14.
Qt is available from http://www.troll.no. The shared lib weight 426 Kb
in tar.gz format.


Note: I've made this utility just to learn Qt, so it's not perfect and
I could have made some major mistakes. If you find bugs or things done
the-bad-way, drop me a note !

--Rémi Guyomarch <rguyom@valcofim.fr>