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Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by ge96 »

mdaniel wrote: post #112
ge96 wrote: post #6

Windows doesn't have a programmable equivalent does it? Last time I messed around with this stuff I got by with an Electron app and using browser desktop notifications but I think I couldn't actually modify the taskbar/put icons somewhere.

Unclear what you mean by programmable, but https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pro... is the bee's knees and you can set an option to have it take over taskmon.exe, launch on login, and put as many of the widgets in the taskbar as you fancy. I love it I've heard about running them directly from SMB but have never been the kind of person to try out such a stunt https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sy…

yeah if you can modify the taskbar that's interesting, like where the weather/news comes in that area

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by leidenfrost »

js2 wrote: post #46

This looks like a clone of iStat Menus which I had installed for years and years till one day I realized I basically never look at it and the icons were just taking up space in my menu bar. I finally un-installed it. The activity monitor in my dock set to show CPU is sufficient for my needs.

This also looks like a clone of the Old system stats for the GNOME 2 panel.

It made more sense when I used a dirt cheap computer and squeezed every Hz of it.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

bogantech wrote: post #97
hombre_fatal wrote: post #24

Cool. I used to pay for iStat Menus, but one day I got a new laptop and couldn't figure out how to download the old version I had bought a license for. IMO it's essential to see cpu / mem / network consumption at all times and, on top of that, the top 5 apps consuming each one of them. It should be a default feature of computing devices by now, but it's so far from that which only benefits bad actors (resource hogs,…

> IMO it's essential to see cpu / mem / network consumption at all times Why?

I like to know that the programs I’m developing utilize resources as I expect or intent them to.

I might be bad at my job but it’s not uncommon for me to design something and discover it’s sucking back resources to some crazy degree. I don’t want to discover that in flame charts way after the fact. I’d rather see it in real time and diagnose the issue early on in the process.

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by msravi »

dylan604 wrote: post #58
js2 wrote: post #46

This looks like a clone of iStat Menus which I had installed for years and years till one day I realized I basically never look at it and the icons were just taking up space in my menu bar. I finally un-installed it. The activity monitor in my dock set to show CPU is sufficient for my needs.

the one I use most often is about://peformance in Firefox I used to open up Activity Monitor, but every single time my laptop fans kick on, it was the browser. with the browser performance monitor, i can see exactly which tab is being naughty. So now, I skip Activity Monitor and go straight to the source. Usually, a cmd-R on the offending tab brings it back under control. I assume some JS dev has not tested their cod…

I think in the latest nightly, this is about:processes

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by jrockway »

crazygringo wrote: post #71

I've used Stats for years and loved it -- for CPU, GPU, memory, and network upload/download speeds. It's fantastic for catching when a bunch of processes haven't been killed and are stuck at 100%. For figuring out if my code is actually running on the GPU or not. For seeing what my network transfer rates are, when a download or transfer gets stuck, and which process is suddenly downloading hundreds of megabytes witho…

Yeah, I've always been a fan of having something like this going. I have found bugs in my software just from having the continuous graph somewhere. "Why am I using 100% of the CPU for no reason right now? Oh, after 10 minutes without a request it enters an infinite loop here..."

Back in the old days the fans going to 100% was a good bug finder. But computers can be so quiet now, you have to use your eyes ;)

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by JayDustheadz »

dylan604 wrote: post #58
js2 wrote: post #46

This looks like a clone of iStat Menus which I had installed for years and years till one day I realized I basically never look at it and the icons were just taking up space in my menu bar. I finally un-installed it. The activity monitor in my dock set to show CPU is sufficient for my needs.

the one I use most often is about://peformance in Firefox I used to open up Activity Monitor, but every single time my laptop fans kick on, it was the browser. with the browser performance monitor, i can see exactly which tab is being naughty. So now, I skip Activity Monitor and go straight to the source. Usually, a cmd-R on the offending tab brings it back under control. I assume some JS dev has not tested their cod…

omg thank you so much for this! Totally did not know this could be done from within FF!

Re: Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

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Post by throwaway314155 »

grishka wrote: post #40
sammcgrail wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

are you on a work laptop? A lot of times they have screensavers for intel arch, and apple silicon might have something to do with this problem

No, it's my personal laptop and the screensaver is definitely native (ARM). It's probably just Apple being sloppy again.

40 GB is not simple sloppiness when it comes to a simple screensaver. I would encourage you to explore other solutions than to just blame it on some historical precedent you've experienced. However true it may be. It's just not likely given the criteria.
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