Version 2.4c of ProcMeter released : Sat Mar 21 07:40:00 1998
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Fixed network stats for kernel version 2.1.91.


Version 2.4b of ProcMeter released : Mon Feb 2 20:00:00 1998
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Fixed system stats for kernel version 2.1.84.


Version 2.4a of ProcMeter released : Fri Jan 23 19:10:00 1998
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Fixed network device stats for kernel version 2.1.80.


Version 2.4 of ProcMeter released : Sat Jan 10 14:00:00 1998
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Exit cleanly when the window manager close window option is chosen.
Now an option to log to syslog instead of a file or stdout.

Added Statistics:
batt-life       Remaining battery life for systems with apm.
batt-lvl        Battery status (high, low, critical or unknown).


Version 2.3b of ProcMeter unreleased : Tue Jan 6 19:10:00 1998
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Added in the option to change the label in the window and log file.
Added a -force-fpkt option to force fpkt statistics even if not auto-detected.
Fixed the bug that caused it to go mad catching up when the time jumps forward.


Version 2.3a of ProcMeter released : Thu Sep 4 18:10:00 1997
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Added in the option to compile a version without needing X Windows installed.
The start-procmeter script lists the programs in the library as part of usage.
Ignore the first sample of a new statistic since it may be old or just wrong.
Wait for definition files to appear to allow slow starting programs to be used.


Version 2.3 of ProcMeter released : Thu Aug 14 18:00:00 1997
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Changed the label at the top to show the hostname.
Increased efficiency by only reading from files that are needed.
Locked the time steps to real time instead of free running.

Added in the option to write the statistics to a log file.
Included a perl script to extract a single statistic from the log file.

Added in the option to read in data from a named pipe.
Included a shell script to start procmeter and the other programs.

Added Statistics:
disk-rd        Amount of disk read accesses
disk-wr        Amount of disk write accesses
fpkt-coll      Number of collisions (ethernet)


Version 2.2b of ProcMeter released : Thu May 29 20:00:00 1997
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Updated for new kernel change (/proc/meminfo in 2.1.41).
Added a -force-spkt option to force spkt statistics even if not auto-detected.


Version 2.2a of ProcMeter released : Sat Mar 15 20:00:00 1997
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Updated for new kernel change (/proc/net/dev in 2.1.28).
Fixed bugs with string overflow (again), make install.


Version 2.2 of ProcMeter released : Sun Nov  3 15:00:00 1996
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Added a -force-spkt option to force spkt statistics even if not auto-detected.
Choice of solid or line graph provided via X resources.

Modified Statistics:
spkt           Number of packets             \   'Slow' interfaces
spkt-rx        Number of received packets     |       (slip, ppp, plip,
spkt-tx        Number of transmitted packets /         flip, isdn, ippp).

Tested on Linux 1.2.13.


Version 2.1 of ProcMeter released : Sun Sep  1 14:00:00 1996
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Fixed the problem with being unable to read context data from /proc/stat.
Fixed a number of problems with network statistics.
Scaling of memory graph depends on total amount of RAM.
Grid lines can be turned off.
Overload conditions with too many grid lines cause them to be removed.
Improved the description of X resources in the manual page.

Added Statistic:
proc           The number of processes

Removed Statistics:
lpkt-rx        Number of received packets    \ 'Local' interfaces
lpkt-tx        Number of transmitted packets /      (lo and dummy).

Modified Statistics:
spkt           Number of packets             \
spkt-rx        Number of received packets     | 'Slow' interfaces
spkt-tx        Number of transmitted packets /      (sl, ppp, plip, flip).

Tested on Linux 1.2.13.


Version 2.0 of ProcMeter released : Sat Aug 17 13:00:00 1996
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Almost completely rewritten.
Uses custom Widget for the graphs, better than Athena one for this task:
  New meters line up on the right with the existing ones.
  All meters updated simultaneously (push rather than pull the data).
Uses less resources, only 1/2 of the cpu and 1/3 of the memory of Version 1.1a.
Checks for compatability of /proc files on startup (in case of kernel changes).
Allows choice of horizontal or vertical layout.

Added Statistic:
mem-cache   MB Amount of cached memory (kernel version >2.0)

Modified Statistics:
lpkt           Number of packets             \
lpkt-rx        Number of received packets     | 'Local' interfaces
lpkt-tx        Number of transmitted packets /      (lo and dummy).
fpkt           Number of packets             \
fpkt-rx        Number of received packets     | 'Fast' interfaces
fpkt-tx        Number of transmitted packets /      (eth and others).
spkt           Number of packets             \
spkt-rx        Number of received packets     | 'Slow' interfaces
spkt-tx        Number of transmitted packets /      (sl, ppp, plip).

Tested on Linux 1.1.0, 1.1.57, 1.2.13, 2.0.7


Version 1.1a of procmeter released : Mon Mar 18 18:00:00 1996
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Bug fix of Version 1.1, for kernel 1.3.?.

Tested on Linux 1.1.47, 1.2.13, 1.3.?


Version 1.1 of procmeter released : Sat Mar 16 13:40:00 1996
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Added Statistic:
disk           Amount of disk accesses

Modified Statistics:
pkt1           Number of packets             \
pkt1-rx        Number of received packets     | 'Fast' interfaces
pkt1-tx        Number of transmitted packets /      (eth and lo).
pkt2           Number of packets             \
pkt2-rx        Number of received packets     | 'Slow' interfaces
pkt2-tx        Number of transmitted packets /      (sl and ppp).

Choice of labels top or bottom.
Improved documentation.

Tested on Linux 1.1.47, 1.2.13


Version 1.0 of procmeter released : Wed Jan 31 21:15:00 1996
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A simple X based performance meter for Linux (very like xmeter).
Displays statistics direct from /proc on the local machine only.

Available statistics are:
cpu         %  Total cpu usage
cpu-user    %  cpu used by user processes
cpu-nice    %  cpu used by niced processes
cpu-sys     %  cpu used by sysytem processes
cpu-idle    %  cpu unused
load           System load
swap           Amount of swapping
swap-in        Amount of swap in
swap-out       Amount of swap out
page           Amount of pageing
page-in        Amount of page in
page-out       Amount of page out
intr           Number of interrupts
context        Number of context switches
mem-free    MB Amount of free memory
mem-used    MB Amount of used memory
mem-buff    MB Amount of file buffer memory
mem-swap    MB Amount of swap space used
pkt            Number of packets
pkt-rx         Number of received packets
pkt-tx         Number of transmitted packets

Tested on Linux 1.1.47
