README.md
1usbtop
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4usbtop is a top-like utility that shows an estimated instantaneous bandwidth on
5USB buses and devices.
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8Project status
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11Current stable release is 1.0 (tag release-1.0).
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13The project is stable and has been tested on debian systems. It should work on all different flavors of Linux though.
14Do not hesitate to report any issue you would have while trying to compile and run usbtop.
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16A ncurses and Qt interfaces with a Windows port are the next steps. Feel free to contribute :)
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19Usage
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22Please refer to the ```INSTALL.md``` file for installation instructions.
23Then, you need to have the ```usbmon``` module loaded. As root, do :
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26# modprobe usbmon
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29Moreover, on some distributions, usbtop need to be run as root!
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