system-load-plugin-0.1.0

Luis Miguel Garcia ktech at wanadoo.es
Wed Jul 2 00:47:26 CEST 2003


On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 23:58:37 +0200
Juraj Ziegler <e at hq.sk> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 06:05:00PM +0200, Riccardo Persichetti wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> >   I'd like to announce initial release of system-load-plugin.
> > As the name implies, it's an xfce4 plugin that monitors the
> > current system load.
> > At the moment it needs the "/proc/stat" file in order to work,
> > so systems lacking this file won't work.
> > A quite recent xfce4 version is needed, beta1 should be enough.
> 
> I assume reading /proc/apm won't be any harder. Having volume control,
> cpu load, net "load", memory usage and battery status would probably eliminate 
> my need to run gkrellm.

But gkrellm still has nice graphics with the history in order to see if a value has increments or decrements. This cannot be observed in system-load-plugin and similars.

:o

Luis Miguel Garcia



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