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I don't know if there are comparable Windows and Mac equivalents, but with Ubuntu I have this nice "Gnome system monitor" that shows me CPU, Memory, Network, Lo
by Hexstream 17y ago
I don't know if there are comparable Windows and Mac equivalents, but with Ubuntu I have this nice "Gnome system monitor" that shows me CPU, Memory, Network, Load Average and Disk IO usage % in real-time at all times. I can't imagine living without it.
There's no way I couldn't notice something taking 100% CPU for a long time while not writing to disk when it ought to start writing to disk immediately.
It's part of the reason I notice and hate flash stuff that takes 100% CPU for no reason at all. (but I'd notice anyway because my fan gets noisier real fast)
- halo 17y agoGNOME System Monitor is largely a clone of Windows Task Manager, which is accessible via the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Esc (or via the Ctrl+Alt+Del menu) on any Windows system. Mac OS X also has Activity Monitor which serves a similar purpose.
- Hexstream 17y agoI'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. I'm talking about a real-time monitor of all of CPU, RAM, Bandwidth, Load average and Disk I/O (you can show even more or less) that sits in the menu bar. Windows only shows CPU like that, and it works really badly because if your CPU spikes to 100% it momentarily stops updating. There's simply no comparison between the two.
- brown 17y agoI highly recommend Process Explorer (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.asp...). It is like the default Windows Task Manager on steroids. It is the tool most preferred by Microsoft devs. It is very lightweight and powerful. I have long hoped for a Process Explorer clone for linux (maybe a side project for someone with lots of free time...).