sysstat VS blessed

Well... What that's showing is that at some point in time you copied some pages into swap. Since there's no competition for that, they have just stayed there. It doesn't mean that you are seeing memory pressure now, only that at some point since the last reboot your memory usage passed the high water mark which encouraged the kernel to start thinking about swap. If you have sysstat installed you can run through sar to see when that was and even get some idea of whether or not any of those pages written to swap were ever read again, but just having some pages written to swap doesn't mean a whole lot on its own.

You can try sysstat/ iostat. https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat Have a cron or systemd process take periodic snapshots and log them or email them. The swordfish on paper looks fast enough, but it’s on the slow side for a NVMe. For reference I’m running a NUC8 i5 with 16GB of RAM, 1 TB Adata XPG SX8200 Pro and it’s been rock solid. Ubuntu 20.04LTS.

I found blessed but it seems like it was last updated 8 years ago. So what are my options?

So far I found this library github.com/chjj/blessed which is very powerful, I need to render animated charts and other complex objects and for my purpose it is doing well.

Alas https://github.com/chjj/blessed/issues/418#issuecomment-1533...

I considered blessed for a recent project, but ended up just simplifying the approach & making do with Inquirer + Meow instead due to the maintenance status. Haven't found anything else equivalent to blessed, other than Ink.

Inquirer is still probably the library that is most similar, if you are looking for comparisons to existing tools. My goal was to create a set of tools that uses the terminal window for a single operation at a time. The UI providing as much contextual information as possible to the user to know what actions they can perform, and any relevant information. A bit like a "choose your adventure" via terminal app sort of thing. Explicitly trying to stay clear of full screen and dashboard type stuff, like what blessed provides.

Not exactly a shell scripting framework, but y’all should check out blessed js. Weirdly enough I just found it yesterday and shit goes absolutely wild in the terminal

Perhaps you’d like a terminal based UI? https://github.com/chjj/blessed

You can build them from scratch, or use one of many specialized libraries on NPM, like commander, yargs, blessed, terminal kit, prompts, and many more.

This is where libraries come in: https://github.com/chjj/blessed - this allows you to manage rendering in the terminal on your own, so you can have a scrolling box of text at the top and a "command line" at the bottom.

I was hoping to write my app in Rust as a learning exercise, but my alternative is https://www.npmjs.com/package/blessed, which is NodeJS. Ah well.

Using this https://github.com/chjj/blessed