A CPU monitor

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Sep 30 19:17:47 UTC 2009


Jay Mistry wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at 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.




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