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tagadvance/elephant-top-hat
===========================

A tiny stand-alone library for parsing the Linux `top` command.

07PHP

Since Oct 15Pushed 5y ago1 watchersCompare

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Elephant Top Hat
================

[](#elephant-top-hat)

A tiny stand-alone library for parsing the Linux `top` command.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require tagadvance/elephant-top-hat:dev-main

```

Example Usage
-------------

[](#example-usage)

```
use tagadvance\elephanttophat\Top;

$top = Top::exec();
var_export($top);
```

yields e.g.

```
[
	'time' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => DateTimeImmutable::__set_state([
			'date' => '2020-10-14 17:26:45.000000',
			'timezone_type' => 3,
			'timezone' => 'UTC',
		]),
		'unit' => NULL,
	]),
	'uptime' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '1:23',
		'unit' => NULL,
	]),
	'users' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => 1,
		'unit' => NULL,
	]),
	'load_average_1_minute' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '0.96',
		'unit' => NULL,
	]),
	'load_average_5_minutes' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '1.61',
		'unit' => NULL,
	]),
	'load_average_15_minutes' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '1.83',
		'unit' => NULL,
	]),
	'tasks_total' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => 368,
		'unit' => NULL,
	]),
	'tasks_running' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => 1,
		'unit' => NULL,
	]),
	'tasks_sleeping' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => 367,
		'unit' => NULL,
	]),
	'tasks_stopped' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => 0,
		'unit' => NULL,
	]),
	'tasks_zombie' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => 0,
		'unit' => NULL,
	]),
	'cpu_user_space' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '5.6',
		'unit' => '%',
	]),
	'cpu_kernel_space' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '0.0',
		'unit' => '%',
	]),
	'cpu_nice' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '0.0',
		'unit' => '%',
	]),
	'cpu_utilization' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '5.6',
		'unit' => '%',
	]),
	'cpu_idle' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '94.4',
		'unit' => '%',
	]),
	'cpu_wait' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '0.0',
		'unit' => '%',
	]),
	'cpu_hardware_interrupts' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '0.0',
		'unit' => '%',
	]),
	'cpu_software_interrupts' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '0.0',
		'unit' => '%',
	]),
	'cpu_steal' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '0.0',
		'unit' => '%',
	]),
	'memory_total' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '15433.6',
		'unit' => 'MiB',
	]),
	'memory_free' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '7824.9',
		'unit' => 'MiB',
	]),
	'memory_used' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '4914.7',
		'unit' => 'MiB',
	]),
	'memory_cache' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '2694.0',
		'unit' => 'MiB',
	]),
	'swap_total' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '16384.0',
		'unit' => 'MiB',
	]),
	'swap_free' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '16384.0',
		'unit' => 'MiB',
	]),
	'swap_used' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '0.0',
		'unit' => 'MiB',
	]),
	'memory_available' => Measurement::__set_state([
		'value' => '9903.5',
		'unit' => 'MiB',
	]),
]
```

###  Health Score

17

—

LowBetter than 6% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity32

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b280291fbbbe53d05587495c671005c222547d33f3a9cd198287a39b21c9cc32?d=identicon)[tagadvance](/maintainers/tagadvance)

---

Top Contributors

[![tagadvance](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3781878?v=4)](https://github.com/tagadvance "tagadvance (1 commits)")

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