The program xmeter (rstat display for X) is available as a Debian package for slink and older dists.
Until it gets included officially it is available from: http://www.ing.umu.se/~bosse/debian new debian package, version 2.0. size 19780 bytes: control archive= 809 bytes. 635 bytes, 17 lines control 380 bytes, 6 lines md5sums Package: xmeter Version: 1.15-1 Section: x11 Priority: optional Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6, xlib6g (>= 3.3.2.3a-2) Installed-Size: 48 Maintainer: Bo Branten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: rstat display for X. Xmeter displays a periodically updating histogram of the system statistics gathered by rstat(3) for the specified hosts. Meters can be displayed in a vertical, horizontal or rectangular arrangement. As statistics range between 4 user defineable levels (OK, WARN, ERROR or FATAL), the background, foreground, highlight, border and internal border colors, and the background bitmap of each meter can be changed.