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I had a habit of touching the strip of metal above the keys on my old macbook air, since that heats up before the fan becomes audible. The sensible approach, o
by dbtc 5y ago
I had a habit of touching the strip of metal above the keys on my old macbook air, since that heats up before the fan becomes audible.
The sensible approach, of course, is to add a load monitor to the menu bar; now with my new m1 macbook, I can simply make the appropriate noises myself, as necessary. This is the UNIX way.
- MiguelHudnandez 5y ago"MenuBar Stats" has a versatile collection of widgets to add to the menu bar. I'd prefer something open source though, if anyone has recommendations, please share. Once you're running a tool like that, it is interesting to see the efficiency cores often saturated and the performance cores usually sleeping.
- cjmaria 5y agoI've been using this one: https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters https://github.com/yujitach/MenuMeters
- PikachuEXE 5y agoIn addition to that I also use https://github.com/exelban/stats https://github.com/exelban/stats
- maxioatic 5y agoYou can do this with xbar [0] (which is also just a super cool app). Looks like someone even made one specifically for checking the CPU throttling speed [1] [0] - https://xbarapp.com/docs/plugins/System.html https://xbarapp.com/docs/plugins/System.html [1] - https://xbarapp.com/docs/plugins/System/cpu-thermal-throttle.30s.sh.html https://xbarapp.com/docs/plugins/System/cpu-thermal-throttle...
- mimsee 5y ago[1] seems to use 'pmset -g therm' behind the scenes and it seems to not work on my M1 Air.
- IshKebab 5y agoWhat I really want is a menu bar widget that detects apps using 100% CPU for more than a minute and offers to `kill -9` them. Has anyone made that?