A CPU monitor

[Jay Mistry]

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

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