A CPU monitor

[suvayu ali]

2009/9/30 Jay Mistry <jaylinux53 at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram at 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.
>>
>> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=801
>
> 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!

-- 
Suvayu

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