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Third party alternates report more detailed data and keep more useful history when running. They’re just part of the debugging process, as a user. Most can be c
by 1123581321 5y ago
Third party alternates report more detailed data and keep more useful history when running. They’re just part of the debugging process, as a user. Most can be configured to display minimal information in the menu bar.
- nsonha 5y agobut why do you need them displayed all the time? I notice every time I open the Monitor app, itself actually consumes the most CPU. There must be some cost to constantly querying these system metrics when you don't actually look at them all that much.
- 1123581321 5y agoI'm saying you don't, if you don't want to see them. Usually there's some menu bar icon that's configurable. But you do want to keep them running for the history and for the quick accessibility. There is indeed a performance cost. My experience is the good third party options are less resource intensive than the system option, but YMMW and there are a lot of options out there making all kinds of tradeoffs. That said, there are definitely people who want to run a powerful and GUI-rich system stats tool and don't mind seeing graphs in the corner of their eye all day and giving up 5% of resources to run it. I'd venture most of us are running something that another person doesn't see the point in using.