saidar is a top like tool. It provides a curses based interface for viewing system statistics such as network I/O, disk I/O, CPU, memory and more. The core of the functionality is provided by the libstatgrab library:
libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it's run. It's written in C and presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
On a Debian system install the package as usual:
apt-get install saidar
and then run:
saidar
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