What is 'rushtop'?

This allows one to monitor the load status of an entire render farm, or select groups of machines via specifying hostnames or hostgroups on the command line.

In the Cpu and Ram bars, blue indicates a resource is in use, Green means unused. In the Cpu bar, red indicates kernel use, such as disk or network I/O. In the Swap bar, yellow indicates swap space has been reserved, green indicates unused/free swap, and orange indicates heavy paging activity that might noticably affect the machine's interactive response.

(New in 102.40f) Hostnames will show in green if they are 'online' in rush (accepting jobs), or gray if they are 'offline' (not accepting jobs). e.g.

Using Rushtop

rushtop' from the command line, and the GUI should come up by default displaying all the processors, updating the screen once per second.

Under 'Cpu', blue indicates the amount of cpu used by user processes, red indicates the amount of cpu used by the operating system. There is one bar per physical processor on the machine.
Under 'Ram', blue indicates the amount of ram being used by all programs running on the machine.
Under 'Swap', blue indicates the amount of swap space claimed on the machine.

You can limit the graph to show only particular machines, or even +hostgroups by supplying them on the command line:

`rushtop`	*# monitor all rush hosts (default)*
`rushtop +linux`	*# monitor only machines in the '+linux' hostgroup*
`rushtop +linux +sgi`	*# monitor only machines in the '+linux' and '+sgi' hostgroups*
`rushtop tahoe huron`	*# monitor only hosts 'tahoe' and 'huron'*

Here's part of a large render farm; you can use the scroll bar to see all the processors: