System monitor is GUI utility that monitors system behavior.
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Any tool that displays CPU core utilization? [duplicate]
I like the way System Monitor on Ubuntu displays the usage of different cores on the CPU. I write multi-threaded applications and it is useful for me to see how many cores are being occupied, for how ...
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System Monitor > System tab missing in Ubuntu 13.04
I upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 from april, but just today I observed that System tab is missing from System Monitor. I searched on internet and I didn't find too much about this fact. Does they removed it ...
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Is it possible to direct system monitor output to a file?
I want to save to a text file the CPU and memory usage real-time info displayed in Gnome System Monitor 3.6. Does anybody know if this is possible? If so, how can it be done?
If it's not possible with ...
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System moniter incorectly shows CPU constantly on 100%,
Running absolutely nothing, my system monitor states that all four cores of my AMD Phenom II 945 are at 100%, although no individual process can be traced to cause this. At most, Firefox takes 4% of ...
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How do I change the priority of a process/program
I would like to be able to change the priority of the SuperTuxKart process to a higher one so that it will run with less lag. It is quite easy to do on Windows (you just need the administrator ...
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System Monitor does not show information fields
OS Version : 12.10 (32bit)
After installing python-psutil and using it to get a list of processes, system monitor does't show any information about processes except for process name.
In preferences ...
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Add a feature like one in Windows task manager?
I really like the System monitor in Ubuntu but there is one feature that I am missing that is in Windows Task manager. In addition to showing the processes Windows task manager also has a tab that ...
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gnome system monitor ( “!” sign appears in gnome tweak tool)
I've installed ubuntu 12.10 and i'm using gnome-shell 3.6
I tried to install gnome-system-monitor extension but in gnome-tweak-tool it's gray and disabled(can't turn it on/off)
I installed it by ...
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System Monitor disagrees with 'free -m' [duplicate]
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System monitor (panel) shows the wrong amount of used ram
When I start up my computer, free -m says I have about 1800MB allocated and 150MB free. In System Monitor, it ...
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How to monitor my wireless connection when using a Live USB?
Hi I have a live Ubuntu 12.10 usb running on a Compaq laptop. I can`t find the system monitor which I need to monitor wireless internet conection performance. Can you help? Thanks!
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Downloading files
I'm about to download the program glances made at http://nicolargo.github.com/glances/ to monitor my computer. it offers a .zip file and a .tar.gz file. which file type is more compatible with ubuntu?
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Problems booting because the HDD is full. How can I get stuff off my hard drive?
I have used up all the space on my hard drive and when starting up the computer says the only option I have is to start up in basic graphics mode. On the screen it then says stopping system v runlevel ...
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Why is system monitor hogging CPU?
I had nothing better to do last night than stare at my system monitor. As I was engaged in this activity, I became concerned that my CPU usage was nearing 50 or 60 percent, even though I was doing ...
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Can I view Nvidia GPU usage?
I know that I can view CPU usage using System Monitor:
Is there such a tool for viewing GPU usage, as well?
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Is there a cpu frequency monitor on ubuntu 12.10
So I was wondering if there Is a ,,system monitor" program that measures cpu frequency on ubuntu ??? like windows 8 has in ,,task manager" or ,,cpu-z"
Thank you in advanced
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Cant change niceness even after editing limits.conf
so what i did:
in the terminal i typed:
sudo su
(used pass) then typed:
nano /etc/security/limits.conf
went to bottom and added:
USER - nice -20
(with my ...
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Where is my ram?
I have 2GB installed on my machine running Ubuntu 12.04. After some time of use, I see much of my RAM used. The RAM does not free enough even though I closed all my programs.
I included 2 ...
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i added Hibernate option in Ubuntu 12.04 but not working
i created hibernate option using _
sudo gedit /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/hibernate.pkla
and i added this in that file_
[Re-enable Hibernate]
Identity=unix-user:*
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Ubuntu System monitor shows 4 cpu while I have 2 cores
Acording to my laptop website and intel website, my CPU is Intel i5-2410M
Processor Number i5-2410M
Cores 2
Threads 4
Clock Speed 2.3 GHz
Max Turbo Frequency 2.9 GHz
so I have two cores, but ...
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Is there tool to see call-stack of running thread similar to Process Explorer by Sysinternals?
Is there tool to see call-stack of running thread similar to Process Explorer by Sysinternals ?
So far I tried htop, qps and Linux Process Explorer. None of them can provide that information.
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System monitor in console mode
Is there a way to start system monitor app, from the console ??
I am not talking about terminal.
I am talking about Ctrl + Alt + F1 mode
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How to extract a list of all devices that were connected to my PC before?
How to know what USB devices had connected to my Ubuntu 12.04 PC. I've read this but I didn't get satisfied since i dont know how to deal with the log file to collect the data I need.
Also, I want to ...
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How to hide a running process ?
Using Ubuntu 12.04. is there any way to hide a running process ? That process shouldn't' display in system monitor,top,htop . There is no problem to remember the process id (PID) so observation of ...
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How can I set hotkeys?
How can I set the hotkey ctrl+shift+esc like it is in windows, to the system moniter, or any other programs for that matter
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System Monitor Indicator eating CPU usage?
When I installed SMI (System Monitor Indicator) I noticed my laptop was slowing down. My memory usage was normal, but my CPU usage was rocketing to a 100% while doing activities on my laptop I ...
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Difference between the results of the top command and System-Monitor,Why?
Why is there a huge difference between the outputs' of top command and the system monitor when both programs were run at the same time. Please find attached is the screen shot showing the huge ...
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System monitor show 8 CPUs for my Intel i7-3820QM?
I have a new System76 Gazelle laptop with an Intel i7-3820QM CPU. My understanding was that this chip was a quad-core. If so, why does system monitor show 8 cpus?
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What is inet_wait_for_connect?
I am running 12.04 LTS kernal 3.2.0-26 generic on my laptop. I have a python file that I am running from IDLE Python 2.7.3 and when I run it, it is supposed to ping twitter and write to a text file. ...
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Ubuntu Server - Software to monitor disk space and send email on threshold
I'm looking for something that can monitor disk usage on my partitions and send an email alert when threshold is reached. For example, when sdb1 has 10 % disk space left it will send an email to me. ...
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Is there an application indicator for CPU usage by core?
I love System Load Indicator (indicator-multiload), but it doesn't reflect the usage of the individual CPU cores, just the overall CPU usage. Sometimes I'll have an application max out a single core ...
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What is my real available disk space?
I've got a low disk space message window of 99.9 MB disk space remaining.
When I went to the Ubuntu System Monitor it was saying on the System Tab:
System Status
Available disk space: 49.4 ...
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99% CPU usage for no reason
10 minutes ago I was just surfing the web as usual on my Ubuntu 10.04, when all of a sudden the system became slow. I realized that the CPU usage is 99%. I opened System monitor and everything seemed ...
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Wifi measurements seem totally off [closed]
Last time I checked, 30 million terabytes is not a normal network speed. Why is the measure so far off? This is on 12.04. As far as I know, I've installed nothing weird on this system. Strangely, ...
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Can I exclude system monitor itself from the CPU usage shown?
Is it possible, as an option, to ignore the gnome-system-monitor process itself from the gnome-system-monitor calculation (% cpu, etc.) ?
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making “gnome-system-monitor” a custom shortcut “ctrl+alt+del” like windows “Task Manager” isn't working
I went to "System Settings", "keyboard", "shortcuts", "custom shortcuts", I added a custom shortcut and called it "task manager" in the "command line:" I typed "gnome-system-monitor", and I gave it ...
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Why can't I raise the priority level in 12.04 in gnome-system-monitor
When I go to raise a priority level it displays this
I know it says permission denied, but is this a bug? I can lower it but not raise it. Is this normal?
EDIT: I think this might be a bug, ...
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How do priorities work on ubuntu's 12.04 system monitor?
I noticed in my system monitor app, on the "Processes" tab, that one can change the 'priority' of a certain program. What specifically would this do? (I'm new)
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In System monitor what is the difference between Kill Process and End Process
When I want to kill a process via System Monitor I am presented with 2 quick ways, Kill Process and End Process. What is the difference between this two?
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A light alternative to gnome-system-monitor?
As I'm programming a little game, I often use gnome-system-monitor to check if there's any memory leak in my program. But the monitor takes too much lime to launch and is pretty slow.
Could you ...
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Ubuntu 11.10- Conky (Need help w/ config)
I'm still new to ubuntu, I just downloaded "Conky" from the command line. I found some really cool script online, but I don't how to edit Conky and copy and paste the script.
Thanks,
-Vince
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What is 'Getty'? I noticed there is 6 occurences of it in my System Monitor
I'm just curious what 'Getty' is and what it does. The past few days I have noticed that there is always at least 6 instances of it in System Monitor each using about 640KiB memory and status says ...
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System Monitor Resources Customisation
Im currently usig ubuntu as a server, and i use gnome-system-monitor to track (visually) how much cpu load is being consumed, however, I only see the last 60 seconds of usage.
Is there a way to set ...
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system monitor is reporting 3.9 GiB only? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is more than 3GB of RAM not recognised when using amd64?
Why does Ubuntu only show 3GB of RAM?
my ubuntu 10.10 x64 was installed on this box one year ago, with 6Gb ...
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Please suggest one free log manager which will help me to audit all system and services logs in organized format?
I have Ubuntu server 11.10 but without GUI, so it is fine even if that suggest a software or something like that which will intern help me do that. it will be grate if that software can export logs in ...
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Different memory types in System Monitor
On the ubuntu system monitor there are different types of memory listed: Virtual Memory, Resident Memory, Writeable Memory, Shared Memory & X Server Memory. What are the differences between them, ...
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What might be causing momentary system freezes?
I just built a new PC with pretty solid specs, at least, more robust than most I've built in the past.
It's got a six-core AMD processor, 600watt power supply, 8GB RAM, etc.
I loaded up a fresh ...
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Best practice to monitor Ubuntu Server
I have an Ubuntu Server that is intermittently rebooting. I notice the reboot once every 3 weeks or so. I have a feeling that this is occurring more often and I want to get an accurate picture of the ...
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What is the equivalent of 'Control-Alt-Delete'?
On Windows anytime the system hangs Ctrl-Alt-Del brings up the Start Up Manager, from which you can end the program or process causing the hang. Is there any command like this on Ubuntu?
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Why does Gnome System monitor never tell me what process is actually using the CPU?
I have an applet in my Gnome Panel which shows me the current load of my CPU. This is important on my laptop because it's a slightly older machine, and so knowing when I should let it finish one task ...
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How can I change the OS name from Ubuntu to something else?
I want that applications like System Monitor and Conky display the name MYOS instead of Ubuntu 11.10.
Also, I want lsb_release -a and etc. to show MYOS only.
