multi-window linux command line… tmux to the rescue

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 –