I had no issues running these kind of monitors on crappy single-core Pentium 3 laptops, yet these days I avoid monitoring widgets because I feel they're too heavy and unnecessary bloat. To be fair, these days they're probably written in Electron or Python, compared to efficient C.
GTK Krell Monitors
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#22Thanks for the memory lane drive. I used to run this on FreeBSD desktop under fluxbox wm wayyy back, I think in 2004. So cool.
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#23I used to run this, but once systems started having 20 cpu cores, and 12 hard drives, it wouldn't fit on the screen anymore... sadly conky has the same issue.
Just scale down the chart size. For my 16 core system each CPU chart is just 5px high, it works great because you still have the horizontal indicators.
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#24If you're looking for an OSS project to contribute, GKrellM needs your help!
It is still using GTK2 which is deprecated and will go away sooner or later.
Patches are welcome! https://git.srcbox.net/gkrellm/gkrellm/issues/1
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#25I used this back in the days and it was awesome. Sadly after the dawn of tiling window managers this is obsolete since you will never really see it as windows always takes full screen. If anyone knows how to make it play well with i3wm or awesome wm, let me know, would gladly use this again.
Does not help you but the question nerd sniped me to try it as an exercise in my preferred tiling WM spectrwm.
https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm
This lets it act as a sort of toolbar, present on all workspaces.
in .spectrwmrc add
#shrink the region by 112 to allow space for the widget
region = screen[1]:2448x1440+0+0
#add quirk to remove from normal workspaces
quirk[Gkrellm] = WS[-1]
gkrellm -geometry -0+0
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#26I used this back in the days and it was awesome. Sadly after the dawn of tiling window managers this is obsolete since you will never really see it as windows always takes full screen. If anyone knows how to make it play well with i3wm or awesome wm, let me know, would gladly use this again.
IIRC AwesomeWM has the option to define the area of the screen used for tiling. It's called workarea[0] I think. So in theory you should be able to just make the screen a bit smaller and free some screen estate for other things.
[0] https://awesomewm.org/doc/api/classes/screen.html#screen.wor...
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#27I used to run this, but once systems started having 20 cpu cores, and 12 hard drives, it wouldn't fit on the screen anymore... sadly conky has the same issue.
If I have more than 8 threads, I'll use the composite CPU chart instead. Also, I have to tell it to ignore veth, vnet, and virbr network interfaces, since I run virt-manager on the box as well.
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#28I used to run this, but once systems started having 20 cpu cores, and 12 hard drives, it wouldn't fit on the screen anymore... sadly conky has the same issue.
You can pick and choose which devices are important to monitor, and you can combine all the CPU cores into one chart. That's what I do anyway.
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#29I have been using gkrellm for at least the last 25 years or so. I very much like being able to see what my system is doing at a glance and no other system monitor comes close to being both as detailed and compact.
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