[PATCH] add nmeter applet

[Rob Landley]

Some design notes on top.c direction:

The existing top.c code isn't that bad now that I've looked more closely, it's 
just very non-generic.  Some refactoring would help.

The naieve implementation of generic code would be something that fills out a 
system structure (free memory, load average, etc) a list of process 
structures.  In theory, this list of process structures could get darn long.  
In practice, we need the whole list in order to sort it, and we can't figure 
out what processes to display without sorting the list, so...

Then the current "top" could display the first two lines from the system 
structure and the individual process lines from the process list, and your 
nmeter thing could use the same data structures to display one-line summaries 
in whatever format seems appropriate.

(The other issue is determining cpu usage percentage, but that shouldn't be 
too hard either...)

Rob
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