You have downloaded wmsysmon, a small dock application for use with WindowMaker (www.windowmaker.org) to show system information on interrupt activity, memory use, swap use, and IO. wmsysmon was originally written by Dave Clark, I saw room for improvement in wmsysmon and sent some updates in to Dave Clark, after nearly a month went by with no response I decided to takeover development. Dave Clark is OK with this, it appears he is too overworked to keep up with everything, if you are management over Dave Clark give him a break :). This program is licensed under the GNU GPL, see file COPYING. Simply enter the 'src' directory and type 'make' to build wmsysmon, if you are using a SMP x86 machine or an alpha machine you may want to edit the Makefile and uncomment -DHI_INTS before building, this enables monitoring the 24 interrupts available on such machines. After building successfully, execute 'make install' to install the binary into /usr/local/bin, root will be required to write the binary in /usr/local/bin, but it is not required to install the binary in /usr/local/bin to use wmsysmon, it may be run from anywhere in the filesystem, but on a multi-user system it is preferred to have it available for everyone to use, hence /usr/local/bin. For information on running wmsysmon, execute 'wmsysmon -h' afer building (and installing) using the above instructions. I have also added some profiling output in the directory "profiles", you can see in these files the improvements that have been done (scientific proof) to wmsysmon. The Makefile-profile makefile is used for building wmsysmon with profiling enabled, this requires the profiling tools to be installed and configured. You probably dont care about this. Cheers. - Vito Caputo swivel@gnugeneration.com GNU Generation www.gnugeneration.com