System Monintors

[Member manyroads]

Because the issue appeared in the antiX testing topic, I thought folks might like to add their thoughts to my little list. Here are the system monitors I find helpful/ interesting/ fun.

— bashtop (deprecated in favor of bpytop)
— bpytop
— glances
— htop
— lxtask (antiX preferred?)
— nmon

Are there other system monitors out there that you like?

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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manyroads wrote:

Because the issue appeared in the antiX testing topic, I thought folks might like to add their thoughts to my little list. Here are the system monitors I find helpful/ interesting/ fun.

— bashtop (deprecated in favor of bpytop)
— bpytop
— glances
— htop
— lxtask (antiX preferred?)
— nmon

Are there other system monitors out there that you like?

Of the ones you mentioned, htop is the only one I happen to frequently use.

I’m sure that many tools are handy, but like everything else in the free software community, different people use different tools.

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[Anonymous]

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For the benefit of users on the systems I support, I install
mate-system-monitor

For my own use,
sudo apt install qps
It enables you to send a specific signal to a program (vs only “kill”)
and you can peek the runtime environment variables (as seen from a given program’s point-of-view).
You can also view the memory pages mapped by an app and similar tech-y details.

[Member andyprough]

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Anonymous wrote:

For my own use,
sudo apt install qps
It enables you to send a specific signal to a program (vs only “kill”)
and you can peek the runtime environment variables (as seen from a given program’s point-of-view).
You can also view the memory pages mapped by an app and similar tech-y details.

Wow, that’s quite a system monitor. That’s a lot of detail for each package and a lot of options.

[Member ModdIt]

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skidoo, thanks another really useful tip,

the coin miners and trojan droppers will not love you for spreading this tool.

BTW: Since following your advice regarding firefox being remotely run in headless
that has stopped. Hopefully long term.

[Member manyroads]

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Something I have found very helpful and informative is to add the following line to your .bashrc (or .zshrc.

neofetch

On every terminal open I get a very quick “headsup on RAM use”

EDIT: You need to install neofetch (btw. screenfetch does pretty much the same thing.)

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"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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20 Jan 2021 ~ "End of an Error"

[Member Xecure]

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For RAM I use the included script in antiX ps_mem.py
To watch in “real time”, I do:
watch sudo ps_mem.py

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[Member ile]

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hello manyroads
Yes i hit neofetch –stdout often, for a mem look, and it is one of few places outside synaptic that displays package count installed.
neofetch displays a lot of items that conky has special keywords to display. i have displayed neofetch in conky instead! not a hard hit at all. From antiX-goodies package is <env-info> catches similar out no need to install neofetch (?)

[Member Robin]

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This is not a system monitor literally, but I like to use the combination of monitoring

cpu-frequency
cpu-load
cpu-temperature
and memory-usage

which conky presents at desktop, so I can see a program I’ve started is at the edge of overloading the system.

Most things are present already in antiX standard desktop setup (at least in 17.4, since 19.x I hadn’t got working on this laptop until now)

I just had to add one line to ~/.conkyrc
which runs

${color}Temp:${alignr}${color3}${execi 30 sensors | grep 'temp2:' | cut -c15-22}

and is to be placed right beneath the lines for “CPU:” and “Freq:”
You will have to figure out the correct parameters for grepping and cutting, according to the output of sensors command in terminal window.

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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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ile wrote:

hello manyroads
Yes i hit neofetch –stdout often, for a mem look, and it is one of few places outside synaptic that displays package count installed.
neofetch displays a lot of items that conky has special keywords to display. i have displayed neofetch in conky instead! not a hard hit at all. From antiX-goodies package is <env-info> catches similar out no need to install neofetch (?)

Well spotted ile. We have lots of undiscovered goodies…

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[Member ile]

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hello manyroads
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hello anticapitalista
You are custodian of the finest small-computer Desktop system on the planet. Thanks. ___ile

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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I used to gkrellm .https://packages.debian.org/buster/gkrellm It takes conky place on the desktop. Or. You can run both if screen space is spacious.

I liked all the monitors till my screens got too small. eeepc 701sd , ran wbar and horizontal conky instead.
Then tint2 entered the picture. That was fun netbook to play with in it;s day. Hated taking the left click tap padc switch apart and cleaning and bending it to make good contact again. Left click was weakness on those netbooks.

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[Member ile]

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hello manyroads, hi rokytnji
On fluxbox with gkrellm
gkrellm can run in the slit or not in the slit.

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