pw-top
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The PipeWire process viewer
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:Manual section: 1
:Manual group: General Commands Manual

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

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

SEE ALSO
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``pipewire(1)``,