SysMonitor-GPIO

Dangerous process monitor and killer designed to be used on a Beaglebone-Black, to display resource usage levels using LEDs and offer an input buttom to kill the process who is using the most resources.

To build for local arch:

$ make
$ chmod +x sysmonitor
$ ./sysmonitor

To cross-build for arm:

$ make arm
$ chmod +x sysmonitor_arm
$ ./sysmonitor_arm

We HIGHLY recommend using g++ >= 5.0.

This project was coded has an exercise for a course on "Project of Operational Systems", with the objective of understanding with more depth the information available on /proc and the usage of parallel computing with both processes and threads.

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The main class is SysMonitor:

SysMonitor will monitor the resource (CPU or Memory) usage on the /proc pseudo-file system. Levels of usage: 0 -> 25% - Green 25% -> 50% - Yellow 50% -> 75% - Red 75% -> 100% - Panic State

SysMonitor has 3 analogic outputs and one input:

• A green LED that will be on when the usage is Green, a yellow LED and a red LED who work the same way. When in panic state, the three LEDs will blink.
• While in the Panic State, the PanicButton will be enabled. This button is capable of sending a SIGTERM to the process who is using the most resources, when pressed down.

SysMonitor communicates with the LEDs and the button through gpio's. Their IDs are listed bellow:

const int panicButtonGPIO = 47;
const int redAlertGPIO = 45;
const int yellowAlertGPIO = 69;
const int greenAlertGPIO = 66;

After starting the instance, call SysMonitor.start() to start the monitor.