There's an indicator available for this already, although it lacks the fancy graphs. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/indicator-sysmonitor-simple-system-stat

There's an indicator available for this already, although it lacks the fancy graphs. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/indicator-sysmonitor-simple-system-stats-app-for-ubuntu/ http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/indicator-sysmonitor-simp... (seems to be down atm) https://launchpad.net/indicator-sysmonitor/+download https://launchpad.net/indicator-sysmonitor/+download