friend of mine pointed this out to me, 15 years after i started using linux. better late then never!
tutorials
http://lukaszwrobel.pl/blog/tmux-tutorial-split-terminal-windows-easily
https://robots.thoughtbot.com/a-tmux-crash-course
http://www.sitepoint.com/tmux-a-simple-start/
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-tmux-on-ubuntu-12-10–2
setup
window 1 – monitoring
nload
top -d 1
window 2 –