Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar

Post by saagarjha » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 10:30 AM UTC

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?

Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 10:36 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #141

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #96

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I found iStatsMenu also destabilized my system. I’d get random kernel panics, while it was running. It may have been just one of the display modules, as I didn’t use the default set, but I never felt like tracking it down, so I uninstalled it. Every now and then, I try reinstalling it, but it still crashes the system. Not a big deal. Just eye candy.

I’m very curious what it is doing to panic your computer

Post by SadTrombone » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 11:40 AM UTC

kcplate wrote: post #118

rodgerd wrote: post #80

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No-one you know, old person.

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Post by stogot » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 1:02 PM UTC

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…

Post by jkestner » Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 2:42 PM UTC

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #140

parl_match wrote: post #120

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iStat menus hit a lot harder when 8GB of RAM was a $2000 upgrade.

I remember when 4 MB of RAM was several hundred dollars. My first computer (a VIC-20) had 3KB of RAM. There was so little memory, that I had to write most of my software in 6502 Machine Language.