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Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by nicoburns »

This looks nice, but I've personally found that this is something I prefer a TUI app for (specifically htop is very good). Why?

1. Because TUI apps are perfectly good for this. These kind of apps don't really need a fancy UI.

2. 90% of the time I want to use a system monitor is when my system is running slow and I need to find out why and which process I need to kill. A fancy GUI app will often take an age to load in these circumstances. Whereas somehow htop will usually still load in <1 secon d and be responsive.

Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by technotarek »

Slightly off topic, but fully related. Has anyone ever noticed that when your CPU is spiking on a Mac, simply opening Activity Monitor often brings it in check? Please tell me I haven’t fabricated this correlation! I’ve noticed it on several generations of MBA’s, with the 2020 Intel as the most recent.

Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by wlesieutre »

technotarek wrote: post #52

Slightly off topic, but fully related. Has anyone ever noticed that when your CPU is spiking on a Mac, simply opening Activity Monitor often brings it in check? Please tell me I haven’t fabricated this correlation! I’ve noticed it on several generations of MBA’s, with the 2020 Intel as the most recent.

I haven't noticed that, but I'd propose an alternate explanation: the amount of time it takes for you to notice a CPU spike, get annoyed by it, and launch task manager ends up being just slightly shorter than the running time of some common CPU spiking tasks.

Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by TENACIOUSANT »

technotarek wrote: post #52

Slightly off topic, but fully related. Has anyone ever noticed that when your CPU is spiking on a Mac, simply opening Activity Monitor often brings it in check? Please tell me I haven’t fabricated this correlation! I’ve noticed it on several generations of MBA’s, with the 2020 Intel as the most recent.

100% this on my rMBP 2015. Almost every time too. I notice my PC will give a similar 'system interrupts' reaction with Task Manager, however.

Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by jondwillis »

other_herbert wrote: post #29

Very nice :) I just bought it, this is a lot nicer to have around than switching back to the activity monitor.. I just recently got an m1 Mac air and since it's fanless and makes no obvious outside indication that something is busy it's hard to tell what's going on.

M1 Mac mini reporting in... I can't get the fan to turn on. And I'm compiling as hard as I can...

Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by stephenr »

xyst wrote: post #44
fermienrico wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can spend $10 :) It's like 2 coffees. Not that much and not a subscription :)

For those reading, this is likely in reference to Sugarbucks (Starbucks) “coffee”. Brewing at home with a pot or even an espresso machine is approx <$1 per cup.

Depends how big your cups are ;-)

Re: Show HN: Pluto – macOS system monitor app

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Post by odux »

lupinglade wrote: post #54
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #46

Looks nice. I wish you luck. I have sworn off these things, after numerous issues with another one.

What issues did you have?

I will try this when I get to my mac but such apps in the past have caused significant CPU load for me.
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