Reverse colors between green and red? about dstat HOT 10 CLOSED

I support this feature request. High cpu load (columns usr sys wai hiq siq) should be red on high load and green on low (contrary to current behavior). And idle column should be green on high and red on low (like current behavior). Reasonale is it is hard to distinguish high load by casual glance now.

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Ok, the documentation should make this clear. The colors have no meaning except that they indicate a change in unit, or breaking a treshold. I will not add meaning to colors like green means OK and red means not OK. Because that's subjective and depends on interpretation. And people might start to wonder why 64M of free memory is OK.

Bad idea. Leave the interpretation of numbers up to the experts/users.

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Nowhere I requested it to be interpretation as 'good' or 'bad'. Just high cpu load is red (or green, blue, whatever), and low cpu load is contrary to it. I.e.'idle' colored in reverse to the rest of cpu values, because idle is negative of it (it is 100 - sum of rest). Proposed benefit is not goodness/badness interpretation by non experts, but ease of seeing general cpu load. Of course don't reply to this as I understood your position, and just wanted to clarify mine.

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Yes, you give meaning to red as being "high cpu load", which it is not. The meaning of red in this case is between 0% and 33%, which is the same for every percentage value, whether it is wifi signal, disk usage, cpu usage or idle time.

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@wting: At the moment you cannot change the color palette (colors and order) however this was one of the examples for the dstat configuration file that we may introduce at some point. The only thing you can do now is either go to black-on-white colors (--bw) or disable colors altogether (--nocolor).

Of course you can patch the code. We should probably discuss introducing the configuration file.

Reopening as a feature request.

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I give meaning 'high/low' which is bad, you give meaning ' between 0% and 33%' is good. Ok, nm.

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I agree the colors should be switched. It makes a new user confused. I was totally baffled by this and needed to google up what 's going on (that is why I am here).

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I would like to replace the blue colours with something like green or yellow as on a black background its barely readable.

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@chrcoluk The obvious way to make blue more readable is configuring your terminal to display a lighter blue than what is configured. This helps not just for Dstat, but also for other tools using blue.

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Just came here to open a bug and found this issue

When it comes to CPU load, interpretation of red=bad or green=good is of course dependant on what one expects - if I wanted to run computations then 0% CPU usage would in fact be bad.
But when it comes to disk statistics for example, surely 100% disk utilization should be in red by default and not green - one might argue it's the same thing, but for 99% people using dstat red would be much more intuitive (and 100% disk utilization usually is bad, except special scenarios.)

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