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vtpup · Posted: Sat 31 Jan 2009, 00:01 Post subject:

Peace be with you, my friend.

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

My previous load average example giving a 1 minute average was a bit lacking in granularity. This might be more promising

MU · Posted: Sat 07 Feb 2009, 09:40 Post subject:

cpu usage from deskicons002:

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

thanks Mark
That confirms that the value I am using is sensible, I'm just collecting it in an expensive way. I will probably try and do a complete solution in C to avoid the cost of opening a shell every couple of seconds. I do find it interesting how my cpu bounces from 2-30% whilst I am not interacting with my machine.

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3726 Location: UK

I read through this thread a few times now, and oddly have come to the conclusion that a monitor for running processes is actually a lot more useful as a diagnostic tool than a CPU meter.

asdf42 · Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Posts: 2

A few things about xload and CPU meters:

* I use puppy for web browsing, often with many pages opened. Xload increases before my PC gets unresponsive. It is a very useful information. Until I read this thred, I never knew how it detects it, but I used it.

* For a very long time, I didnt pay attention to the white lines across it. It took me *very* long to realize that these are the scales and thus their number is more important than the graph itself. - I believe a tooltip saying how the graph should be read and what it means is VERY important and it should be included in the next version of puppy.

* If anybody wants to monitor the CPU usage, I recommend running a console and calling "top". It is a standard unix command that gives info about processes sorted by CPU usage, about memory usage and similar things. If you dont know it, just try it! I believe this info about managing your processes should be in all starter guides.

disciple · Posted: Sat 30 Jan 2010, 21:22 Post subject: Great idea

DMcCunney · Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Posts: 894

proximityinfotech1 · Guest

Now the question is, is there a similar app that DOES graph CPU usage, and can be used in JWM?
There is xloadtime, which is a fork of xload, that can display an extra bar for it, but it doesn't show a graph over time, just a single bar per CPU.

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disciple · Posted: Tue 13 Jul 2010, 06:31 Post subject:

Somebody found some sort of easy tool for making tray apps a while ago and several apps were made - one of them may have been for CPU usage.
I think this was in the thread for 2.14R or something - can anybody remember?

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7547 Location: qld

disciple

Is this the one? http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=44986

I still have it installed on my old machine.

disciple · Posted: Wed 14 Jul 2010, 06:06 Post subject:

No, at least not the first version posted there. As I described there, it seems to show the CPU speed, so is useful on a laptop or something with dynamic CPU scaling or whatever it's called..
I can't remember for sure what the "modified" version there shows, but from my second comment it sounds like it isn't conventional "cpu usage" either.

disciple · Posted: Wed 14 Jul 2010, 06:21 Post subject:

If I haven't imagined it and there really was one, I think it was about the same time as that post though... maybe a couple of months later.

mulluysavage · Joined: 30 Apr 2010 Posts: 53

I upgraded to 5.1.1 yesterday. I was concerned about my red blob, which I thought was a cpu meter! Smile

Today, my red blob has 5 lines, 4 of which are full. My computer runs fine, but I am wondering why I have so many threads! (Do I have a lot, it seems like it)

Asus M3N78 Pro
AMD Phenom Quad-Core @ 2.6 Ghz
3 GB RAM