PipeWire: pw-top

PipeWire 0.3.50

pw-top

    pw-top
    ######

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    The PipeWire process viewer
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    :Manual section: 1
    :Manual group: General Commands Manual

    SYNOPSIS
    ========

    | **pw-top** [*options*]

    DESCRIPTION
    ===========

    The *pw-top* program provides a dynamic real-time view of the pipewire
    node and device statistics.

    The columns presented are as follows:

    S
      Measurement status.
      ! representing inactive - no connections

      Blank representing active

    ID
      The ID of the pipewire node/device, as found in *pw-dump*

    QUANT
      Current quantum at which the device/node is polled.
      See https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/FAQ#pipewire-buffering-explained

    RATE
      Sample rate used for communicating with this device/node.

    WAIT

    BUSY

    W/Q
      Ratio of WAIT / QUANT.

    B/Q
      Ratio of BUSY / QUANT

    ERR
      Total of Xruns and Errors

    NAME
      Name assigned to the device/node, as found in *pw-dump* node.name

      Names are prefixed by *+* when they are linked to a driver (entry above with no +)

    OPTIONS
    =======

    -h | --help
      Show help.

    -r | --remote=NAME
      The name the *remote* instance to monitor. If left unspecified,
      a connection is made to the default PipeWire instance.

    --version
      Show version information.

    AUTHORS
    =======

    The PipeWire Developers <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>; PipeWire is available from @PACKAGE_URL@

    SEE ALSO
    ========

    ``pipewire(1)``,