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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: shuiend on 17 January 2003, 06:41

Title: Linux CPU Moniter
Post by: shuiend on 17 January 2003, 06:41

is there any cpu monitoring software for linux? I know in windows you use WCPUID to monitor temp and all. Is there a prgrom like this in linux. I would like to see how hot my system is at diffrent times and loads.

Title: Linux CPU Moniter
Post by: voidmain on 17 January 2003, 06:46

There are millions of CPU tools for Linux, some graphical, some will create logs, etc, etc. How would you like to be able to monitor your CPU? Real time? Daily logs broken down in specified time increments? Realtime moving graphs? If you can give specifics I can give you some examples of tools that will give you what you want.

Title: Linux CPU Moniter
Post by: TheQuirk on 17 January 2003, 21:59

$ top

there's also a graphical utility, I'll find it out tomorrow.

Title: Linux CPU Moniter
Post by: voidmain on 17 January 2003, 10:19

top is good. I like GKrellM for a nice little rolling graph of several stats (CPU being one of them). Of course there are the simple little gadgets like xload, xcpustate. Then there are non-graphical apps like top, procinfo, iostat, vmstat, etc that have lots of options. Then there are logging apps like sar which is an excellent logger capable of keeping detailed logs and creating reports on just about everything you can think of relating to performance. Of course this is just the short list. These are utilities included with most UNIX/Linux systems (not counting GKrellM).

Title: Linux CPU Moniter
Post by: shuiend on 17 January 2003, 15:12

Thanks for the replys. Top is nice but i would like something with a gui and also telles me the temperature of my cpu. I am planning on overclocking soon and would like to monitor the speed and temperature of my cpu.

Title: Linux CPU Moniter
Post by: voidmain on 18 January 2003, 01:10

I have seen GUIs for this. Your distro should include a package called "lm_sensors". Here's the web site for it:

http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/ (http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/)

Title: Linux CPU Moniter
Post by: shuiend on 18 January 2003, 01:35

ok i check out that site and dl the program. I checked apt-get to see if they had it and it said i already had the latest version of it. So how in the hell do i use it? The direction are really confusing to me and i dont want to fuck up the thing i already got installed you i am not going to try to compile it right now.