in Gnome.
The gnome system monitor can itself eat up 25% of one of my CPUs.
So what are the alternatives to seeing CPU usage?
On 09/30/2009 10:25 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
in Gnome.
The gnome system monitor can itself eat up 25% of one of my CPUs.
So what are the alternatives to seeing CPU usage?
Well there is plain old top and other frontends like htop. I use conky as well.
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=801
Rahul
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On 09/30/2009 10:25 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
in Gnome.
The gnome system monitor can itself eat up 25% of one of my CPUs.
So what are the alternatives to seeing CPU usage?
Well there is plain old top and other frontends like htop. I use conky as well.
Conky is highly customisable as well, in addition to using less PC resources:
http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/create-a-custum-conky-setup/
Jay
2009/9/30 Jay Mistry jaylinux53@gmail.com:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Rahul Sundaram sundaram@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On 09/30/2009 10:25 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
in Gnome.
The gnome system monitor can itself eat up 25% of one of my CPUs.
So what are the alternatives to seeing CPU usage?
Well there is plain old top and other frontends like htop. I use conky as well.
Conky is highly customisable as well, in addition to using less PC resources:
http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/create-a-custum-conky-setup/
Jay
I second that conky recommendation. It even looks so damn cool, becomes part of the desktop!
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Jay Mistry jaylinux53@gmail.com wrote:
Conky is highly customisable as well, in addition to using less PC resources:
http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/create-a-custum-conky-setup/
Looks nice. I keep a vertical gnome panel on the right side with things like the gnome system monitor applet (which is a little too barebones for me). Do you know if there's any way to integrate conky into a gnome panel? That would be ideal. I guess I could probably fiddle with the height of the panel and just display conky above or below the panel.
Thanks, Reid
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Reid Rivenburgh reidr@pobox.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Jay Mistry jaylinux53@gmail.com wrote:
Conky is highly customisable as well, in addition to using less PC resources:
http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/create-a-custum-conky-setup/
Do you know if there's any way to integrate conky into a gnome panel? That would be ideal. I guess I could probably fiddle with the height of the panel and just display conky above or below the panel.
Thanks, Reid
Not that I know of since Conky basically runs off the desktop. I have Conky running from a custom ~/.conkyrc file on the desktop and use the 'Workspace Switcher' applet to view it (Note that the 'Show Desktop' applet won't work as it minimizes the conky display as well), you can have a look at this thread from Ubuntu Forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865&highlight=.conkyrc
Has a number of .conkyrc files for customized Conky's, you may find one to suit your needs. My current ~/.conkyrc is a modified one from that thread.
Jay
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On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Jay Mistry jaylinux53@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Reid Rivenburgh reidr@pobox.com wrote: Do you know if there's any way to integrate conky into a gnome panel? That would be ideal. I guess I could probably fiddle with the height of the panel and just display conky above or below the panel.
Not that I know of since Conky basically runs off the desktop. I have Conky running from a custom ~/.conkyrc file on the desktop and use the 'Workspace Switcher' applet to view it (Note that the 'Show Desktop' applet won't work as it minimizes the conky display as well), you can have a look at this thread from Ubuntu Forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865&highlight=.conkyrc
Has a number of .conkyrc files for customized Conky's, you may find one to suit your needs. My current ~/.conkyrc is a modified one from that thread.
Nice, thanks. I ended up doing what I thought I'd do, placing conky between two vertical panels. Conky's the same width as the panels, so it looks fine. And conky's amazingly flexible and very nice looking, much better than the simple gnome applet it replaced!
Reid
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
in Gnome.
The gnome system monitor can itself eat up 25% of one of my CPUs.
So what are the alternatives to seeing CPU usage?
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
in Gnome.
The gnome system monitor can itself eat up 25% of one of my CPUs.
So what are the alternatives to seeing CPU usage?
Other options are:
- You can add h/w monitoring applets to your panel(s) [Image 1]. - gdesklets: http://www.gdesklets.de/
PS - GNOME System Monitor _should not_ consume that much of CPU usage, what CPU & how much RAM do you have ?
Jay
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Dallas B. Followill on 09/30/2009 09:08 AM wrote:
PS - GNOME System Monitor _should not_ consume that much of CPU usage, what CPU & how much RAM do you have ?
It does. The fancy cairo graph vectors are probably doing it. On a 3ghz Core 2 Duo I see a core at around 15% with Gnome System Monitor the only application running. On an older 3ghz P4 w/ HT system I see anywhere from 20 to 30% cpu usage. Both systems have accelerated graphics.
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Michael Cronenworth mike@cchtml.com wrote:
Dallas B. Followill on 09/30/2009 09:08 AM wrote: <<<<<
PS - GNOME System Monitor _should not_ consume that much of CPU usage, what CPU & how much RAM do you have ?
You got he name / email header wrong.
Jay Mistry wrote:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
in Gnome.
The gnome system monitor can itself eat up 25% of one of my CPUs.
So what are the alternatives to seeing CPU usage?
Other options are:
- You can add h/w monitoring applets to your panel(s) [Image 1].
- gdesklets: http://www.gdesklets.de/
PS - GNOME System Monitor _should not_ consume that much of CPU usage, what CPU & how much RAM do you have ?
512Mb and a 900Mhz Pentium III on one system. 1024Mb and a VIA EPIA-1000 on another system.
One my HP nc2400 duo core with 2Gb mem it only eats 5-9% of one CPU.
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
in Gnome.
The gnome system monitor can itself eat up 25% of one of my CPUs.
So what are the alternatives to seeing CPU usage?
Which of the monitors do you use? The monitor which runs in the desktop, I guess. There is one to run in the toolbar, and the resources tab in the system->about this system (desktop again) takes little CPU and can be tamed more by using longer sample intervals.
Even on an old 2.5GHz Celeron with both the toolbar and "About the system" running it only take a few percent of the CPU on a totally dumb video, Sis on-board on a Shuttle, no visible impact.
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