Data Collection

[powmeister]

Is bpytop collecting data?

Why does it need to connect whilst piggybacking on python?
🞰htop and others don’t do this.

[aristocratos]

@powmeister

Is bpytop collecting data?

Bpytop is resource monitor, it kinda relies on collecting data to perform the monitor part of that description.

Now your second question I've split up in two parts since it seems a bit confused.

[...] whilst piggybacking on python?

Bpytop is written in python and python is an interpreted language, it won't run without "piggybacking" on python.

Why does it need to connect [..]

This shouldn't be a surprise if you read the README.md -> Shows message in menu if new version is available

Or looked at the code:

bpytop/bpytop.py

Lines 5017 to 5044 in ac0f666

	class UpdateChecker:
	version: str = VERSION
	thread: threading.Thread
	@classmethod
	def run(cls):
	cls.thread = threading.Thread(target=cls._checker)
	cls.thread.start()
	@classmethod
	def _checker(cls):
	try:
	with urllib.request.urlopen("https://github.com/aristocratos/bpytop/raw/master/bpytop.py", timeout=5) as source: # type: ignore
	for line in source:
	line = line.decode("utf-8")
	if line.startswith("VERSION: str ="):
	cls.version = line[(line.index("=")+1):].strip('" \n')
	break
	except Exception as e:
	errlog.exception(f'{e}')
	else:
	if cls.version != VERSION and which("notify-send"):
	try:
	subprocess.run(["notify-send", "-u", "normal", "BpyTop Update!",
	f'New version of BpyTop available!\nCurrent version: {VERSION}\nNew version: {cls.version}\nDownload at github.com/aristocratos/bpytop',
	"-i", "update-notifier", "-t", "10000"], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
	except Exception as e:
	errlog.exception(f'{e}')

And last your statement:

🞰htop and others don’t do this.

I can assure you many others do, some even have an entire http server included, like glances...

[powmeister]

Well, I just graduated from htop, was looking for something “more” and I did not expect this. Thank you for the response, I really appreciate it.