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