Update Info

openSUSE-2025-432


Recommended update for nmon


Type: recommended
Severity: moderate
Issued: 2025-11-16
Description:
This update for nmon fixes the following issues:

- update to 16q:
  * bugfixes

- update to 16p:
  * Small improvements to on-screen use only :
    + CLI -B and GUI 'B' to toggle boxes around stats.
    + CLI -^ and '^' to change units for Disk I/O KB/s -> MB/s -> GB/s.
      This happen temporarily too if the size of the statistic
      will not fit on-scree.
  * Code changed to ensure clean compile for GCC 12

    HAMA servers) and small fixes
    snprintf/strncpy.
  * POWER pool_capacity now correctly divided by 100.
  * Online view POWER Welcome panel on POWER reports the top MHz
  Small changes only:
      mode with "-J"
    stats (m)
  * Boottime shown online in the Kernel "k" panel
  * Utilisation stats: /proc/stat now reports 10 Utilisation stats
  * Bug caused Seg Faults core dumps fixed while collecting to a
  * Fix: Improved memory handling for extreme numbers of processes
    (1000's) or rapid exec of processes  (100's in a millisecond)
    for large Linux servers. We have examples on Intel of 80 CPU
  * Online Dot "." command no longer also changes what is displayed
    as users said it was confusing.
  * Minor online start-up flash screen text changes to include C
    concise CPU stats and U for full  Utilisation stats (all 10 of
    them) instead of a file.
  * Copyright and GPL v3 notice in the code plus online "h" and
  * Source code re-indented.
  * Fixes for Welcome screen on Mainframe
  * Fixed for Curses handling when collecting data to file - big
    bug for main frame and x86.
  * Fixes for Welcome screen on Mainframe
  * Fixed for Curses handling when collecting data to file - big
    bug for main frame and x86.
    + You need a S822LC With NVIDIA GPU(s) and Nvidia Library
      installed libnvidia-ml.so
  * CPU Wide View - online view for up to 192 CPUs
  * CPU MHz per Core ratings for machine that allow cores with
    different MHz - online & saved to file
  * lscpu stats capture - online & to file
  * Z experiment mode showing CPU interrupts - Renamed U stats in
    version 16b - online only
  * Online colourising stats to aid usability - online only
  * Massive improvement in help information: nmon -? and nmon -h
  * Code change to alphabetic order for getopt() and key input
  * New nmon logo on flash screen - online only
  * Extra kernel stats - online only

              

Packages


  • nmon-16q-bp156.3.3.1