I/O Monitor

Live disk read and write throughput in your DankBar, updated every second. Sibling of RAM Monitor, VRAM Monitor, GPU Monitor, CPU Monitor and Disk Monitor.

What it does

• Compact bar pill: icon, optional label, animated progress bar and percentage, sized by the bar's own font scale
• Reads and writes counted together against a configurable full-scale throughput
• Fill follows your theme accent, turns orange above 75% and red above 90%
• Click the pill for the breakdown: read, write and the busiest disk pinned on top, then each disk, then per-process I/O with a kill icon on each row
• Zero dependencies

The popout

System totals come from /proc/vmstat, so they work on every machine, including ones whose udev rules disable per-device I/O accounting. Per-disk rows appear when the kernel is keeping those counters. Rates need two samples, so everything is measured across one short window. Per-process figures come from /proc/<pid>/io, which counts real block-device traffic rather than page-cache hits; processes owned by other users are unreadable without privileges and are skipped.

Each process shows a second, dimmer word where one can be resolved: the script for interpreters, the working directory for shells, the subprocess type for Electron apps.

Installation

From the DMS plugin browser (Settings, Plugins, Browse), or manually:

git clone https://github.com/rollecode/dms-io-monitor ~/.config/DankMaterialShell/plugins/ioMonitor

Then enable it in Settings, Plugins, and add the widget to your bar layout in Settings, Bar.

Settings

• Show label: toggle the text label between the icon and the bar (on by default)
• Label text: customize the label (default I/O)
• Throughput that counts as 100%: megabytes per second that fill the bar, reads and writes together (default 200)
• Entries to show: how many rows the popout lists, 5 to 60 (default 30)

License

MIT