[ale] something's eating cycles

[Jim Philips]

I tried running this same monitor app in KDE. All it does is tell you that an 
application at sometime went above a certain percentage of CPU consumption. 
It doesn't tell you if CPU consumption went back down! And it isn't very 
accurate in my experience either. So, first of all, don't rely on that app to 
tell you ANYTHING useful. If you want an app that does give you some useful 
monitoring, try gkrellm. You can get it at:

http://www.gkrellm.net

So, if things look okay in top, you are generally alright. Gkrellm will 
monitor CPU and mamory usage and also show your download rates for the 
Internet. It's a mature app that's been hammered and tested. And you can make 
it look as pretty as you want.

On Monday 01 July 2002 01:15 pm, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> A stupid GUI KDE bit of software is sitting on my taskbar and monitoring
> memory and processor useage. It nicely shows me a sad face when the
> processor gets overloaded. cute! useful, NOT. Every once in a while it
> pops up a window telling me that solitaire is using to much of the
> processor or that Mozilla is doing the same. In each case neither program
> is active, nor has been for hours. On the taskbar, but idle.
> When an evil Java applet messes with my browser, I usually know it
> very quickly as everything slows down to a crawl. That does not seem to
> be the case here.
> I'll do some more digging.
> But how do I get "top" to stop or end or quit or whatever? I can't
> find a way to get it to stop and give me a prompt. and forcing a
> KILL of the session makes things much worse.
>
> Sean
>
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